“Time who makes the years to whirl
Adorned as he adored you.”

—  Ogden Nash

Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Lady Thinks She Is Thirty
Context: Silly girl, silver girl,
Draw the mirror toward you;
Time who makes the years to whirl
Adorned as he adored you.

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