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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man--and after that, praying.
The melon is growing but its stem is shriveling.
. . . Look! this flesh how it crumbles to dust and is blown!
These bones, how they grind in the granite of frost and are noth
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
the child in me that could not become
was not ready for others to go,
The enjoyment of sex, although great
Is in later years said to abate.
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What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
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The generations of thy peers are fled.
And we ourselves shall go;
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--No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours!
For what wears out the life of mortal men?
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Yet the landscape, those billboards, age as rapidly as before.
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