Years steal Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb, And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Lord Byron
Life
Years steal Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb, And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 8.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.