Age

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Age, thou the loss of health and friends shalt mourn!
  But thou art passing to that night-still bourne,
  Where labour sleeps. The linnet, chattering loud
  To the May morn, shall sing; thou, in thy shroud,
  Forgetful and forgotten, sink to rest;
  And grass-green be the sod upon thy breast!

© William Lisle Bowles