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    The poem expresses the speaker's desire to withhold the passage of time from taking its toll on their soul by documenting beauty and locking away memories of rapture and tears. However, the speaker acknowledges they have begrudged the years their right to tax them and extract a heavy toll, leaving the speaker now determined to hoard every coin of love rather than spend it freely, for fear the years will reclaim even the heart's passions not openly displayed.

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    The poem expresses the speaker's desire to withhold the passage of time from taking its toll on their soul by documenting beauty and locking away memories of rapture and tears. However, the speaker acknowledges they have begrudged the years their right to tax them and extract a heavy toll, leaving the speaker now determined to hoard every coin of love rather than spend it freely, for fear the years will reclaim even the heart's passions not openly displayed.

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    The poem expresses the speaker's desire to withhold the passage of time from taking its toll on their soul by documenting beauty and locking away memories of rapture and tears. However, the speaker acknowledges they have begrudged the years their right to tax them and extract a heavy toll, leaving the speaker now determined to hoard every coin of love rather than spend it freely, for fear the years will reclaim even the heart's passions not openly displayed.

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    I Have Begrudged The Years

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    The poem expresses the speaker's desire to withhold the passage of time from taking its toll on their soul by documenting beauty and locking away memories of rapture and tears. However, the speaker acknowledges they have begrudged the years their right to tax them and extract a heavy toll, leaving the speaker now determined to hoard every coin of love rather than spend it freely, for fear the years will reclaim even the heart's passions not openly displayed.

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    I Have Begrudged the Years

    Angela Manalang-Gloria

    Perhaps the years will get me after all,

    Though I have sought to cheat them of their due

    By documenting in beauty’s name my soul

    And locking out of sight my revenue

    Of golden rapture and of sterling tears,

    Let others give to Caesar Caesar’s own:

    I have begrudged the dictatorial years

    The right usurious to tax me to the bone,

    Therefore behold me now, a Timon bent

    On hoarding each coin of love that should be spent

    On you and you, and hushing all display

    Of passionate splendour lest I betray

    My wealth, lest the sharp years in tithes retrieve

    Even the heart not worn upon my sleeve.

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