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- A PRAYER FOR OLD AGE
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- GOD guard me from those thoughts men think
- In the mind alone;
- He that sings a lasting song
- Thinks in a marrow-bone;
- From all that makes a wise old man
- That can be praised of all;
- O what am I that I should not seem
- For the song's sake a fool?
- I pray -- for word is out
- And prayer comes round again --
- That I may seem, though I die old,
- A foolish, passionate man.
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