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"Then follows Paris and full time
"For both to reason: 'Thus with usl'
"She'll sigh, 'Thus girls give body and soul
,,' At first word, think they gain the goal,
'" When 't is the starting-place they climb I
16
" 'My friend makes verse and gets renown;
'" Have they all fifty years, his peers?
" 'He knows the world, firm, quiet and gay;
'" Boys will become as much one day:
" 'They're fools; he cheats, with beard less brown.
17
'''For boys say, Love me or I die!
'" He did not say, The truth is, youth
" , I wanl, who am old and know too much;
'" I'd catch youth: lend me sight and touch I
" , Drop heart's blood where lite's wheels grate dry /'
18
"\Vhile I should make rejoinder "-(t.hen
It was, no doubt, you ceased that least
Light pressure of my arm in yours)
" , I can conceive of cheaper cures
"For a yawning-fit o'er books and men.
19
" ' ·What? All I am, was, and might be,
'" All, books taught, art brought, life's whole strife, \
'" Painful results since precious, just
'" \Vere fitly exchanged, in wise disgust,
" 'For two cheeks freshened by youth and sea?
20
" 'All for a nosegay I-what came first;
'" With fields on flower, untried each side;
'" I rally, need my books and men,
" , And find a nosegay:' drop it, then,
"N 0 match yet made for best or worst I "
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