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AGE.

1 Age, thou the loss of health and friends shalt mourn!
2 But thou art passing to that night-still bourne,
3 Where labour sleeps. The linnet, chattering loud
4 To the May morn, shall sing; thou, in thy shroud,
5 Forgetful and forgotten, sink to rest;
6 And grass-green be the sod upon thy breast!

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Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street..., 1855, p. 142.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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