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The old man in his fast car / Leaves Achilles lagging, / The old man with his long gun / Outshoots Ulysses' bow, / Nestor in his botched old age / Rivals Ajax bragging, / To Nestor's honeyed courtship / Could Helen say "No"?
Yet, ancient, since you borrow / From youth the strength and speed, / Seducing as an equal / His playmates in the night, / He, robbed, assumes your sceptre, / He overgoes your rede, / And with his brown and lively hairs / Out-prophesies your white.