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Growing Old
From My Lyrical Life, First Series (1889)
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The stream of Life that brimmed its batiks of old,
We drain to gather Wisdom's grains of gold;
And often as we count the riches o'er,
Half wish our wealth wei'e drowned in it once more!
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From the section "Poems for Christie" of My Lyrical Life, First Series (1889).
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