[THE OLD MAN]
The old man
In the mirror
Startles
Me
But the young man
In the photograph
Is stranger
Still.
George Oppen
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But I am but a nameless sort of person
(A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
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