But thy strong Hours indignant workโd their wills, And beat me down and marrโd and wasted me, And thoโ they could not end me, left me maimโd To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
Alfred Lord TennysonOnce in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson