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CALIDUS JUVENTA? by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WE ARE AFRAID THAT WE HAVE NOT LIVED
Last Line: IN A PALSIED AGE.
Subject(s): LIFE;

We are afraid that we have not lived.
We are not afraid of dying.
Toss images to the indifferent morning
Amid laughter and crying --
Amid fitful buffetings of strangled hearts
While they are dying.

Draw tight the words of death shivering
On the strictured page --
The cup of Morgan Fay is shattered.
Life is a bitter sage,
And we are weary infants
In a palsied age.




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