When I Was Still A Youthful Wight,
When I was still a youthful wight, So full of enjoyment and merry, The painters used to assert, in spite, That my features were small yes, very; Yet then full many a beauteous child With true affection upon me smil'd. Now as a greybeard I sit here in state, By street and by lane held in awe, sirs; And may be seen, like old Frederick the Great, On pipebowls, on cups, and on saucers. Yet the beauteous maidens, they keep afar; Oh vision of youth! Oh golden star!
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