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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345804" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Man's Wish</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I live to be old, for I find I go down,<br> Let this be my fate: In a country town<br> May I have a warm house, with a stone at the gate,<br> And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.<br> May I govern my passion with an absolute sway,<br> And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,<br> Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Near a shady grove, and a murmuring brook,<br> With the ocean at distance, whereupon I may look,<br> With a spacious plain without hedge or stile,<br> And an easy pad-nag to ride out a mile.<br> May I govern my passion with an absolute sway,<br> And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,<br> Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> With Horace and Petrarch, and two or three more<br> Of the best wits that reign'd in the ages before,<br> With roast mutton, rather than ven'son or veal,<br> And clean though coarse linen at every meal.<br> May I govern my passion with an absolute sway,<br> And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,<br> Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> With a pudding on Sundays, with stout humming liquor,<br> And remnants of Latin to welcome the vicar,<br> With Monte-Fiascone or Burgundy wine,<br> To drink the King's health as oft as I dine.<br> May I govern my passion with an absolute sway,<br> And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,<br> Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> With a courage undaunted may I face my last day,<br> And when I am dead may the better sort say,<br> In the morning when sober, in the evening when mellow,<br> He's gone, and left not behind him his fellow.<br> May I govern my passion with an absolute sway,<br> And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,<br> Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Americas">Anonymous Americas</a><div class=q>
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