| Though the ages have forgotten
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| Florid sensibilities
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| Powdered hair and skin all rotten
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| No longer a sacred thing
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| For the last of a dying breed
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| Knows no virtue in vacancy
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| And such discourse remains unyielding
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| Exiled by exaltation
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| Steadfast in the will of place
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| Confined by generation
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| Preserved in perfect grace
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| For the last of a dying breed
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| Fares not well in complacency
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| And such discourse remains unyielding
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| For the last of a dying breed
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| Inevitably faced with conformity
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| Flourishes only in undefeated
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| Passage to the rights of antiquity
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| When reason reaches closure
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| Such would sooner lay to waste
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| Compliance with wry composure
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| To save an unmarked face
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| For the last of a dying breed
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| Wants not for such vacancy
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| And such discourse remains unyielding |