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A quite convincing axiom / Is, "Life is like a play"; / For, turning back its pages some / Few dog-eared years away, / I find where I / Committed my / Love-tale -- with brackets where to sigh.
I feel an idle interest / To read again the page; / I enter, as a lover dressed, / At twenty years of age, / And play the part / With throbbing heart, / And all an actor's glowing art.