Tom Graeff. Young Astronomer

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    You must understand. Death must come to all. Sooner to some, later to others.
    Tom Graeff. Derek (David Love)

    The palsy plagues my pulses
    —Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 37)

    The Young Man’s Best Companion, The Farrier’s Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash’s Dictionary, and Walkingame’s Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities had done from a furlong of laden shelves.
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)