Age weighs heavily on me, and the kneesBuckle that long ago, like fawns, pranced nimbly.I groan much but to what end? Humans simplyCannot be ageless like divinities.They say that rosy-forearmed Dawn, when stungWith love, swept a sweet youth to the earth's rim -Tithonus. Even there age withered him,Bound still to a wife forever young.
-Sappho
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