I.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that

Which is most barbarous is the middle age

Of man! it is—I really scarce know what;

But when we hover between fool and sage,

And don't know justly what we would be at—

A period something like a printed page,

Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair

Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were;—

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