The Souls of Aged Men (1901)

In their worn, senescent bodies
sit the souls of aged men.
How poor, how pitiful they are,
how weary of the wretched life which they endure.
How they tremble at the thought of
losing it, and how they love it,
those confused and inconsistent
souls, sitting - tragicomic -
in their old and ruined skins.

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