The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
From Tithonus by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45389/tithonus
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