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First Line: Thou art so fair, and young withal
Last Line: For fear my cradle prove my urn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Townshend, Aurelian
Subject(s): Youth


THOU art so fair, and young withal,
Thou kindlest young desires in me,
Restoring life to leaves that fall,
And sight to eyes that hardly see,
Half those fresh beauties bloom in thee.

Those under several herbs and flowers
Disguised, were all Medea gave,
When she recalled Time's flying hours,
And aged Æson from his grave;
For beauty can both kill and save.

Youth it enflames, but age it cheers,
I would go back, but not return
To twenty, but to twice those years;
Not blaze, but ever constant burn,
For fear my cradle prove my urn.





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