Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air.
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The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.Thomas Gray
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Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
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And waste their sweetness on the desert air.
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