e.—It asks not youth, it asks not health,To hoard accumulated wealth :To the last stage of lengthend years,The love of gold the Miser cheers;And, on the day he tells fourscore,He still can count his treasures oer.—While Reason lives, the hoary sageMay feel that Wisdom crowns his age;And, to Lifes… … ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH 93 Or, with a stammring tongue, to tell,He loves so true—he loves so well;Or bids the blushing roses blowAround his temples white with snow;The careless, playful world may smile;But rigid Reason will revileThe wandring strange from Natures plan,And see the Ideot in the…
Dance of death
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