39 Time to turn back and descend the stair, 40 With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -- 41 (They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!") ... 76 Smoothed by long fingers, 77 Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers, 78 Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me. 79 Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, 80 Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? 81 But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, 82 Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, 83 I am no prophet -- and here's no great matter; 84 ...

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• Grade Level: High School