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Wrinkled ostler, grim and thin! Here is custom come your way; Take my brute, and lead him in, Stuff his ribs with mouldy hay.... I am old, but let me drink; Bring me spices, bring me wine; I remember, when I think, That my youth was half divine.... Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.... Chant me now some wicked stave, Till thy drooping courage rise, And the glow-worm of the grave Glimmer in thy rheumy eyes.... Change, reverting to the years, When thy nerves could understand What there is in loving tears, And the warmth of hand in hand.... Fill the can, and fill the cup: All the windy days of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.
Wrinkled ostler, grim and thin! Here is custom come your way; Take my brute, and lead him in, Stuff his ribs with mouldy hay.... I am old, but let me drink; Bring me spices, bring me wine; I remember, when I think, That my youth was half divine.... Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.... Chant me now some wicked stave, Till thy drooping courage rise, And the glow-worm of the grave Glimmer in thy rheumy eyes.... Change, reverting to the years, When thy nerves could understand What there is in loving tears, And the warmth of hand in hand.... Fill the can, and fill the cup: All the windy days of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 139 · printed citation: Tennyson (The Vision of Sin). · compiler notes excluded
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