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LOST ART by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

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First Line: WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND LIGHT OF HEART
Last Line: MAY MOCK MY YOUTH'S HYPOCRISY!
Subject(s): YOUTH;
I.

WHEN I was young and light of heart
I made sad songs with easy art:
Now I am sad, and no more young,
My sorrow cannot find a tongue.

II.

Pray, Muses, since I may not sing
Of Death or any grievous thing,
Teach me some joyous strain, that I
May mock my youth's hypocrisy!



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