Beware then, Age, that what was won,
[In] life's past labours, studies, views,
Be lost not, now the labour's done,
When all thy part is—not to lose:
When thou canst toil or gain no more,
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Destroy not what was gain'd before.
For, all that's gain'd of all that's good,
When time shall his weak frame destroy,
(Their use then rightly understood,)