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ODE XXXVIII. ON HIMSELF.
Yes, I'm old, I'm old, 'tis true;
What have I with Time to do?
With the Young and with the Gay,
I can drink as much as they.
Let the jovial Band advance,
Still I'm ready for the Dance:
What's my Sceptre, if you ask,
Lo? I sway a mighty Flask.
What have I with Time to do?
With the Young and with the Gay,
I can drink as much as they.
Let the jovial Band advance,
Still I'm ready for the Dance:
What's my Sceptre, if you ask,
Lo? I sway a mighty Flask.
Should some mettled Blade delight
In the bloody Scenes of Fight,
Let him to this Stage ascend,
Still I'm ready to contend—
Mix the Grape's rich Blood, my Page,
We in drinking will engage.
In the bloody Scenes of Fight,
Let him to this Stage ascend,
Still I'm ready to contend—
Mix the Grape's rich Blood, my Page,
We in drinking will engage.
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Yes, I'm old; yet with the Gay
I can be as brisk as they;
Like Silenus' midst his Train,
I can dance along the Plain.
I can be as brisk as they;
Like Silenus' midst his Train,
I can dance along the Plain.
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