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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OLD AGE IN HIS AILING, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: As, reduced to skimmed milk, to slander the cream
Subject(s): Old Age; Youth
Last Line: As, reduced to skimmed milk, to slander the cream
Subject(s): Old Age; Youth
Old Age in his ailing
At youth will be railing
It scorns youth's regaling
Pooh-pooh it does, silly dream;
But me, the fool, save
From waxing so grave
As, reduced to skimmed milk, to slander the cream.
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