17.12.2012, 13:33
" ACCABLE' DE VIEILLESSE."
Oft has the sympathizing Muse essay'd
The subduing power of age to tell
Wherein a weakness infantile does dwell,
Illum'd by clouded understanding's aid,
Which faintly hears what influence has said,
A change — precursor of the final one,
Usurping, where intellect held its seat,
Or, as slow sinks day's orb his mission done.
O'erwhelm'd, seems to intimate the great
And full expression of fair Gallia's tongue :
How, when as it has been, the yielding feet
Have trod the warrior's path — Blenheim's star,
Or rev'rend Chilon, sages first among?
But youthful is their fame, which time can never mar.
Oft has the sympathizing Muse essay'd
The subduing power of age to tell
Wherein a weakness infantile does dwell,
Illum'd by clouded understanding's aid,
Which faintly hears what influence has said,
A change — precursor of the final one,
Usurping, where intellect held its seat,
Or, as slow sinks day's orb his mission done.
O'erwhelm'd, seems to intimate the great
And full expression of fair Gallia's tongue :
How, when as it has been, the yielding feet
Have trod the warrior's path — Blenheim's star,
Or rev'rend Chilon, sages first among?
But youthful is their fame, which time can never mar.