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WELCOME EILD, by                    
First Line: When phoebus in the rainy cloud
Last Line: "welcome eild, for youth is gone"
Subject(s): Aging


WHEN Phoebus in the rainy cloud
Oursylit had the bemis bricht,
And all was lowne before was loude,
Causit be silence of the nicht,
I saw sittand ane weary wicht
Mourning and making ane dreary moan,
Whilk full soberly sat and sicht,
"Welcome eild, for youth is gone.

"The gayness of my yearis gent,
The flouris of my fresh youthheid,
I wat not how, away is went,
And wallowit as the winter weed.
My courage waxis deaf and deid,
My ruby cheekis was red as rone
Are lean and lauchtane as the leid:
Welcome eild, for youth is gone.

"As shadow in the sonnis beam,
Or primrose in the winter shower,

So all my dayis is bot ane dream,
And half the sleeping of an hour.
For my pleasance of paramour
This proverb now I mon propone,
Exempill is said as sweet as sour.
Welcome eild, for youth is gone.

"Ane nap is nurissand after noon,
Ane fire is fosterand for my feet,
With double sockis for my shoon,
And mittanis for my handis meet.
At luvis lair I list nocht leit,
I like best when I lie alone,
Now all is sour before was sweet:
Welcome eild, for youth is gone.

"My curland hair, my crystal een
Are bald and bleared as all may see;
My back, that sometime brent has been,
Now crookis like ane camok tree.
By me your sample ye may see,
For as said worthy Solomon,
Elding is end of earthly glee:
Welcome eild, for youth is gone.

"O fresh youthhead of flouris green!
O tender plant of high courage!
Now as you art so have I been
As plesand and of high parage.
Youthhead have mind on age,
And death that closis all in stone:
Sen here lastis none heritage;
Welcome eild, for youth is gone."





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