<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>As Old George Said</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said old George Jones: 'All in a hundred years.<br>'Tis little time enough, and well may make<br>This youthful country proud among its peers<br>Of progress wooed and won for progress sake.<br>A splendid city shining by the sea<br>And all that count of wealth and worth she owns<br>Speaks well enough for our first century,'<br> Said old George Jones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>''Tis with a country much as 'tis with men:<br>The fevered morn o' life goes all for gain -<br>For all the things gain signifies; an' then,<br>We pause to con life's lesson o'er again<br>And find, if be that wisdom comes with years,<br>That gettin', gainin', holdin', scarce atones<br>Nor pays for all man's toil an' sweat and tears,'<br>Said old George Jones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Not with the golden profit won thro' trade,<br> Not with the tawdry treasure that we wrest<br>From this scarred earth, nor things men's hands have made<br>Comes any answer to man's age-long quest.<br>Not at the gates of such material goals<br>Nor pedigreed cities builded high with stones<br>Lies ought to serve or satisfy men's souls,'<br>Said old George Jones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Said old George Jones, 'This is an old man's pray'r:<br>That gainin' shall not ever wholly serve<br>This land o' mine when I drift otherwhere<br>To seek what share o' peace I may deserve;<br>But that the treasure of the one true worth<br>Shall gleam at last above my whitening bones<br>For wiser mortals of a wiser earth,'<br>Said old George Jones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357434" data-title="As Old George Said de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Said old George Jones: 'All in a hundred years. 'Tis little time enough, and well may make This youthful country proud among its peers Of progress wooed and won for progress sake. A splendid city shining by the sea And all that count of wealth and..."></div> </div> </div>

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