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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Age
By Anacreon (582485 B.C.)
Translation of Abraham Cowley
O
Poor Anacreon, thou grow’st old!
Look how thy hairs are falling all;
Poor Anacreon, how they fall!
Whether I grow old or no,
By th’ effects I do not know;
This I know, without being told,
’Tis time to live, if I grow old;
’Tis time short pleasures now to take,
Of little life the best to make,
And manage wisely the last stake.