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OLD AGE by ELIZA KEARY

First Line: SUCH A WIZENED CREATURE
Last Line: "ITSELF FAIR AND FREE."
Subject(s): OLD AGE;

SUCH a wizened creature,
Sitting alone;
Every kind of ugliness thrown
Into each feature.

"I wasn't always so,"
Said the wizened
One; "sweet motions unimprisoned
Were mine long ago."

And again, "I shall be --
At least something
Out of this outside me, shall wing
Itself fair and free."





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