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Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm, The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play.
Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm, The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 12 · quotation 21 · John Armstrong · Art of Preserving Health. Bk. II. L. 484.
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