A worm is in the bud of youth,
And at the root of age.


Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality. - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)


A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age.

A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age.

A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age.

A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age.