THE AGES OF MAN
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Bearing the fear
Lest his own time indeed be drawing near.
(For in the end
He shall return:
As at his birth he was,
So shall he be.)
Ask: what befalls when sixty years are his?
Then have his muscles grown like root and bar
Set to his work—sufficing but for this
And rooted that they bend now but so far;
And never they
Shall move again to rouse him for the fray.
(For in the end
He shall return:
As at his birth he was,
So shall he be.)
