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The Glass

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Your face has lost     The clearness it once wore,     And your brow smooth and white     Its look of light;     Your eyes that were     So careless, are how deep with care!     O, what has done     This cruelty to you?     Is it only Time makes strange     Your look with change,     Or something more     Than the worst pang Time ever bore?--     Regret, regret!     So bitter that it changes     Bright youth to madness,     Poisoning mere sadness ...     O, vain glass that shows     Less than the bitterness the heart knows.

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