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A Song For Old Age.

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Now nights grow cold and colder,      And North the wild vane swings,     And round each tree and boulder      The driving snow-storm sings -     Come, make my old heart older,      O memory of lost things!     Of Hope, when promise sung her      Brave songs and I was young,     That banquets now on hunger      Since all youth's songs are sung;     Of Love, who walks with younger      Sweethearts the flowers among.     Ah, well! while Life holds levee,      Death's ceaseless dance goes on.     So let the curtains, heavy      About my couch, be drawn -     The curtains, sad and heavy,      Where all shall sleep anon.

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