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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By John JamesPiatt

605 To a Lady

YOU ask a verse, to sing (ah, laughing face!)

Your happy art of growing old with grace?

O Muse, begin, and let the truth—but hold!

First let me see that you are growing old.