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Know'st Thou What Gray Methuselah

Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov 1787 (Vologda) – 1855 (Vologda)

Know'st thou what gray Methuselah
Pronounced when parting with this life?
       Man's born a slave,
       He dies a slave,
       And death will never tell him why
He walked this lovely vale of tears,
       Suffered, wept, endured, and disappeared.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABCCDEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 253
Words 40
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
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Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov

Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov was a Russian poet, essayist and translator of the Romantic era. He also served in the diplomatic corps, spending an extended period in 1818 and 1819 as a secretary to the Russian diplomatic mission at Naples. more…

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