THE LEADEN ECHO
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ow to keep--is there any any, is there none such, nowhereknown some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latchor catch or key to keepBack beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, . . . from vanishingaway? O is there no frowning of these wrinkles, ranked wrinkles deep,Down? no waving off of these most mournful messengers, stillmessengers, sad and stealing messengers of grey?No there's none, there's none, O no there's none,Nor can you long be, what you now are, called fair,Do what you may do, what, do what you may,And wisdom is early to despair:Be beginning; since, no, nothing can be doneTo keep at bayAge and age's evils, hoar hair,Ruck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, death's worst, windingsheets, tombs and worms and tumbling to decay;So be beginning, be beginning to despair.O there's none; no no no there's none:Be beginning to despair, to despair,Despair, despair, despair, despair.
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