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Growing Old by Marchesa Iris Oriago

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Already at this time, though he was not yet thirty-one, Byron was conscious of a physical decay far in advance of his years, and of a corresponding overwhelming lassitude. "At thirty," he wrote, "there is no more to look forward to … my hair is half grey, and the crows foot had been rather lavish of its indelible steps."

taken from: 
The Listener, June 24th 1948
Author: 
Marchesa Iris Oriago