“Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.”
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 1–2.
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According to a venerable and agreeable custom,
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Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow.
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As when newly grown to be a woman,
Tall and noble but with face and bosom
Delicate in colour as apple blossom.
This beauty's kinder, yet for a reason
I could weep that the old is out of season.
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