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ON HIS PITIABLE TRANSFORMATION by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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First Line: I WHO WAS YOUNG SO LONG
Last Line: I WHO WAS YOUNG SO LONG.
Subject(s): AGING; YOUTH;
I WHO was young so long,
Young and alert and gay,
Now that my hair is grey,
Begin to change my song.

Now I know right from wrong,
Now I know @3pay@1 and @3pray@1,
I who was young so long,
Young and alert and gay.

Now I follow the throng,
Walk in the beaten way,
Hear what the elders say,
And own that I was wrong --
I who was young so long.



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