Tithonus by Alfred Tennyson

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March 7, 2015

 

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As time passes, he "withers slowly" and is just "a white-hair'd shadow roaming like a dream" as he's lost all the vigor and vitality that he once possessed as a youth. Tithonus laments that he is now but a "gray shadow" who was once chosen by the goddess of dawn Eos, herself for he was "so glorious in his beauty" and in doing so made him feel like he was "none other than a God...
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But time wore on and "beat" him down and "marr'd and wasted" him and left him "maim'd" but did not end his life. He pleads with Eos, "can thy love, thy beauty, make amends?" "Let me go, take back thy gift" he continues wondering why anyone would want "to vary from the kindly race of men/ or pass beyond the goal of ordinance/ where all should pause, as is most meet for all?" as he realizes his mistake...
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