What signifies a wart, or e'en a scar?

Leave both, skilled hand, and paint us as we are.

The crowfeet paint, the wrinkles on the brow,

The hollow cheek, the form inclined to bow,

The tear-dim'd eye, the hair well streaked with gray,

The hardened hand, begrim'd with soot and clay,

And if you use the seer's revealing glass,

Remember this, "All flesh is as the grass."

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"I WAS THERE"