Metamorphosis of Tithonus

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Dawn, the morning comes,

to steal Tithonus away,

up to Olympus.

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She entreaties king,

Jove, let him live eternal,

forgets to keep youth.

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Tithonus lives glad,

birthdays go, and go, and go,

years accumulate.

--

Build up, and later,

an old man, fit to be dead,

lives on, immortal.

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Tithonus, alas,

grows, old, and small, eternal,

until, a cricket.

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Changes dwell in all,

live in every myth of Greece,

metamorphosis.