Sprightly Old Age
Leigh Hunt
1784 to 1859
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When the sports of youth I see,
Youth returns to me.
Then indeed my old age springs,
To the dance on starting wings.
Stop, Cybele, there, —
As befits a dancer's hair:
Grey-beard sloth be flung;
And I'll join you, young for young,
go fetch we wine,
Bounty of a fruit divine;
I'll show what age can do,
Able still to too,
Able still to drink down sadness,
And display graceful madness.
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