Ripeness Is All
By JESSE ROARKE
Illustrator SUMMERS
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Fantastic Stories of Imagination May 1962. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Shakespeare wrote it, in the tragedy of King Lear—a phrase to live by:
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither;