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When Age comes on! -- / "The deepening dusk is where the dawn / Once glittered splendid, and the dew / In honey-drips, from red rose-lips / Was kissed away by me and you. -- / And now across the frosty lawn / Black foot-prints trail, and Age comes on -- / And Age comes on!
And biting wild-winds whistle through / Our tattered hopes -- and Age comes on!
When Age comes on! -- / O tide of raptures, long withdrawn, / Flow back in summer-floods, and fling / Here at our feet our childhood sweet, / And all the songs we used to sing! . . .
Old loves, old friends -- all dead and gone -- / Our old faith lost -- and Age comes on -- / And Age comes on!
Poor hearts! have we not anything / But longings left when Age comes on?