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While beauty and youth
are in their full prime,
And folly and fashion
affect our whole time,
Oh, let not the phantom
wishes engage;
Let’s live so in youth
that we blush not in age.
I sigh not for beauty,
nor languish for wealth,
But grant me, kind Providence,
virtue and health;
Then, richer than kings,
and far happier than they,
My days shall pass swiftly
and sweetly away.
The vain and the young
may attend us a while,
But let not their flatt’ry
our prudence beguile.
Let’s covet those charms
that shall never decay,
Nor listen to all that deceivers say.
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