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QUATRAIN: FROM EASTERN SOURCES: 1 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

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First Line: IN YOUTH MY HAIR WAS BLACK AS NIGHT
Last Line: AND THAT IS BLACK WHICH ONCE WAS WHITE.
Subject(s): AGING;
IN youth my hair was black as night,
My life as white as driven snow:
As white as snow my hair is now,
And that is black which once was white.



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