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Learning

When do degrees come over a man?
Old age-in bed.
How does one grow them?-catch them who can?
Gray beard-bald head.
Where does one reap it?-how does one bind it?
Steadily searching the lonely truth.
Where do I find it-how do I keep it?
Readily dropping only your youth.

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