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... youth is lost , thy pleasures flown , And age proclaims , " " T is time to go . " To willows sad and weeping yews With us a while , old man , repair , Nor to the vault thy steps refuse ; Thy constant home must soon be there . To summer ...
... youth is lost , thy pleasures flown , And age proclaims , " " T is time to go . " To willows sad and weeping yews With us a while , old man , repair , Nor to the vault thy steps refuse ; Thy constant home must soon be there . To summer ...
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... YOUTH . DAYS of my youth , ye have glided away : Hairs of my youth , ye are frosted and gray : Eyes of my youth , your keen sight is no more : Cheeks of my youth , ye are furrowed all o'er ; Strength of my youth , all your vigour is ...
... YOUTH . DAYS of my youth , ye have glided away : Hairs of my youth , ye are frosted and gray : Eyes of my youth , your keen sight is no more : Cheeks of my youth , ye are furrowed all o'er ; Strength of my youth , all your vigour is ...
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... youth his burnish'd falchion drew , Ten thousand swords his eager bands display'd , And crimson terrors danced on every blade . With equal rage , the bold , Hazorian train Pour'd a wide deluge o'er the shadowy plain ; Loud rose the ...
... youth his burnish'd falchion drew , Ten thousand swords his eager bands display'd , And crimson terrors danced on every blade . With equal rage , the bold , Hazorian train Pour'd a wide deluge o'er the shadowy plain ; Loud rose the ...
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... youth the maddening coursers wheel , Gash'd by the vengeance of his slaughtering steel ; " Twixt two tall oaks the helpless chief they drew ; The shrill car dash'd ; the crack'd wheels rattling flew ; Crush'd in his arms , to rise he ...
... youth the maddening coursers wheel , Gash'd by the vengeance of his slaughtering steel ; " Twixt two tall oaks the helpless chief they drew ; The shrill car dash'd ; the crack'd wheels rattling flew ; Crush'd in his arms , to rise he ...
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... youth and freshness gone , and in their place The lines of care , the track of many a tear ! Amid life's wreck , we struggle to secure Some floating fragment from oblivion's wave : We pant for something that may still endure , And ...
... youth and freshness gone , and in their place The lines of care , the track of many a tear ! Amid life's wreck , we struggle to secure Some floating fragment from oblivion's wave : We pant for something that may still endure , And ...
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