THE AGES OF MAN
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Over the hills; and scorns reproof, nor hears
The voice of teachers. But a graceful doe,
Goodly and fair,
This is the portion for him and his snare.
(Yet in the end
He shall return:
As at his birth he was,
So shall he be.)
At thirty years into a woman's hands
He falleth; rise and look on him and see;
Behold him now caught fast within the strands;
The arrows pierce him round; the want shall be
Now of his life
Only the wants of children and of wife.
(But in the end
