I lived from 1847-1915.
I was from the USA, and am in the Americas category.
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Sweet sixteen is shy and cold,
Calls me "sir," and thinks me old;
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At Cato's Head in Russell Street
These leaves she sat a-stitching;
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To you, whose temperate pulses flow
With measured beat, serene and slow,
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When blushing cheeks and downcast eyes
Set all the heart aflame,
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With half averted face she stood
And answered to his questioning eyes,
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When I was seventeen I heard
From each censorious tongue,
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Softly the summer wind woos the rose
Like a fickle lover.
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Just as I thought I was growing old,
Ready to sit in my easy chair,
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Sullen and dull, in the September day,
On the bank of the river,
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It is not here I best enjoy
The pleasure, that can never cloy,
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