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1762–1850

AGE.

William Lisle Bowles

Age, thou the loss of health and friends shalt mourn! But thou art passing to that night-still bourne, Where labour sleeps. The linnet, chattering loud To the May morn, shall sing; thou, in thy shroud,

Forgetful and forgotten, sink to rest; And grass-green be the sod upon thy breast!

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