Note 604 — POEMS 1816-1823.
Reading edition
["I told Byron that his poetical sentiments of the attractions of matured beauty had, at the moment, suggested four lines to me; which he begged me to repeat, and he laughed not a little when I recited the following lines to him:—
"Oh! talk not to me of the charms of Youth's dimples, There's surely more sentiment center'd in wrinkles. They're the triumphs of Time that mark Beauty's decay, Telling tales of years past, and the few left to stay."
Conversations of Lord Byron, 1834, pp. 255, 256.]