On our staff: for in the bosom

[*]Of the boy, life's young sap rushing,

Is of old age but the equal;

Ares not as yet is found there:

And the man in age exceeding,

When the leaf is sere and withered,

Goes with three feet on his journey;[[276]]

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Not more Ares-like than boyhood,

Like a day-seen dream he wanders.