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E SEX sSEga 6 GEN isis is sss4N iss < f Pm growing old, I'm growing old, feel it every day, The hail peeps forth upon my head, most oIntnonsly gray: There are three wrinkles on my cirin. afd and two beneath each eye. And the roses Of my cheek hegin to with CT and to die. My step IS feebler than it was, my bresy not half so bright; My voice is harsher, and my eye hath lost it's sparkling light: There IS no th,obbing in my beart, and ID my joy no zest, And everdo strongly seek for silence and for rest. Pm growing fat, Pm growing fat, feel it more and more, There IS a weight upon my bones, never knew before, l have two chins, instead of one, and 80 alike they show, l hardly know the very chin l wore long years ago. My legs can scarcely carry me to chapel or to court, And the cane gaily sported once is now my strong support,- I met grey hound on a bridge, I threw the puppy in, Tor thought that he insulted me he look so very thin. m growing sad. E'.. 1T. srasg; nge saa, I:know not how. or why. Yet every houri feel as if it were no pain to die. l look upon the earth around, and on ths sky above, let here or there, ] cannot find a being of my love; ! sit alone, l walk alone, and inthe silent night, Look out alone upon the stars, and watch. their airy flight. I have ID strong and bitter grief to bow my spirit down, But the green leaves off my early years, are fading into brown. Pm growing dull, I'm growing dull, it is most sadly trne, l cannot do ono half that once I easily cond do. My sense is torpid, and my brain seems frozen intossnow, So sluggishly and mHddily the streams of wisdom foy: My wit is like a sleeping lake, nnrippled by the breeze, And the tendrils of my heart, the crusteds ice-twigs of the trees, My pulse is.very feeble, ndsmy blood is. icy cold, lis certain that am growing dull, and sad, and fat, and old.

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