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 But she is vanish'd to her shady home
 Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
  Weeps in a read more 
 But she is vanish'd to her shady home
 Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
  Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair. 
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
 It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief 
could be assuaged by baldness.
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 It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief 
could be assuaged by baldness.
 [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito 
maeror levaretur.] 
His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
 For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness?
 [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam
  Simplex read more 
 For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness?
 [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam
  Simplex munditiis?] 
 Those curious locks so aptly twin'd,
 Whose every hair a soul doth bind.  
 Those curious locks so aptly twin'd,
 Whose every hair a soul doth bind. 
Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
 And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair
 Has led and turned me by a single hair.  
 And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair
 Has led and turned me by a single hair. 
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.