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THOU greybeard, old Wisdom! may boast of thy treasures; Give me with young Folly to live; I grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures, But Folly has raptures to give.
Epigram - The Raptures of Folly
409Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
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