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EPIGRAM ON LAIS' MIRROR by PLATO

First Line: LAIS OF THE HAUGHTY SMILE
Last Line: AND CANNOT WHAT I USED TO BE.'
Subject(s): MIRRORS; OLD AGE;

Lais of the haughty smile,
The despair of Greece erewhile,
Whose doors fond gallants wont to crowd,
Hath her glass to Venus vowed:
'Since what I am I will not see,
And cannot what I used to be.'



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