By jo petty
Submitted by aparajita
Date: 2003 Mar 06
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Let me grow lovely, growing old-
So many fine things do:
Lace and ivory and gold
And silks need not be new.
There is healing in old trees,
Old streets a glamor hold.
Why may not I, as well as these,
Grow lovely, growing old?