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Sexagenarius Loquitur

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From our youth to our age     We have passed each stage     In old immemorial order,     From primitive days     Through flowery ways     With love like a hedge as their border.     Ah, youth was a kingdom of joy,     And we were the king and the queen,     When I was a year     Short of thirty, my dear,     And you were just nearing nineteen.     But dark follows light     And day follows night     As the old planet circles the sun;     And nature still traces     Her score on our faces     And tallies the years as they run.     Have they chilled the old warmth in your heart?     I swear that they have not in mine,     Though I am a year     Short of sixty, my dear,     And you are well, say thirty-nine.

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