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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEW AND OLD (TO A YOUNG LADY), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: For what is old you nothing care
Last Line: The other only stays a minute!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Old Age; Youth
First Line: For what is old you nothing care
Last Line: The other only stays a minute!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Old Age; Youth
FOR what is old you nothing care --
'Antiques,' you say, but leave you cold;
And yet the sun that gilds your hair
Is more than many aeons old.
The very song I hear you sing
Is little but a variation
Of some foregone primaeval thing --
Some early mortal inspiration!
Ah, never say you hate the old,
It always hides the new within it;
'Twill last until the stars are cold,
The other only stays a minute!
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