I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear

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"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."

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"I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went."

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