“Thus aged men, full loth and slow,
The vanities of life forego,
And count their youthful follies o'er,
Till Memory lends her light no more.”

— Walter Scott , book Rokeby

Canto V, stanza 1.
Rokeby (1813)

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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771–1832

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