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OLD AGE IN HIS AILING by HERMAN MELVILLE

Poet Analysis

Last Line: As, reduced to skimmed milk, to slander the cream
Subject(s): OLD AGE; YOUTH;
Old Age in his ailing
At youth will be railing
It scorns youth's regaling
Pooh-pooh it does, silly dream;
But me, the fool, save
From waxing so grave
As, reduced to skimmed milk, to slander the cream.



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