Hampi ancient historical monuments. Am just independent now like Matthew Arnold’s "The Scholar-Gipsy"

Hampi ancient historical monuments.

Am just independent now like Matthew Arnold’s  "The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853)

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For what wears out the life of mortal men?

        'Tis that from change to change their being rolls:

'Tis that repeated shocks, again, again,

    Exhaust the energy of strongest souls,

        And numb the elastic powers.

— Lines 142–146

The scholar gipsy, having renounced such a life, is

Free from the sick fatigue, the languid doubt,

    Which much to have tried, in much been baffled, brings.

— Lines 164–165

and is therefore not subject to ageing and death. Arnold describes

        ...this strange disease of modern life,

With its sick hurry, its divided aims,

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11-1-2023.