You are old, Father William. the young man cried,The few locks which are left you are grey;You are hale, Father William—a hearty old man:Now tell me the reason, I pray.
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About Robert Southey
Robert Southey was a 18th-century English romantic poet. Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions. Read more on Wikipedia →