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07-23-2007, 03:58 AM
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Here is one that haunts me.
Mimnermus:
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But short-lived, like a dream,
is treasured Youth.
Harsh and deformed
Old Age looms just above our heads.
Hated and despised alike,
it makes a man unrecognizable,
ruins his eyes, clouds his mind.
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