Thou Graybeard, old Wisdom, mayst boast of thy treasures Give me with young Folly to live I grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures But Folly has raptures to give.
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Tho' the wee cot-house should haud me;
And the warld before me to win my bread,
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