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Now for the elder ones: they, like the young,

Refresh’d, hie forth and mingle with the throng,

As prone to mirth, apparently as gay

As Spring’s sweet blossoms in the bright noon-day:

Some tune their voices in harmonious glee,

And thus make jub’lant the festivity;

Whilst others, wand’ring o’er the pleasant grounds,

Return to welcome those according sounds,

And bid them echo, with their meet applause,