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The hoary fool who many days

DMI number:
21871
First Line:
The hoary fool who many days
Last Line:
Tomorrow till tonight he dies
Poem Genre / Form:
Quatrain abab and Extract / snippet from longer work
Themes:
Grief / sadness / melancholy, Hope, and Time
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Author:
Matthew Prior
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Wright and Spears I: 108 (Extract from 'To the Honourable Charles Montague' ('However tis well that while mankind').
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Title:
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p.105
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