Motif
Fading youth and rejected return
fading_youth_and_rejected_return
A motif of the Immortality Without Renewal family, within the sub-family Fading Youth, Failed Restoration, and Aging Through Loss. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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persian
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The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan XVIII / XXVII / CHAPTER IV / CHAPTER V; lines 2971-3063 confidence: high
A formerly handsome person returns after an interval; the speaker says the person's charms have faded, beard has appeared, and the season of youth must end, refusing the expected embrace.
The returnee's former beauty is described as waning, and the speaker refuses renewed intimacy because youth has passed.
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