<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Springtime and Old Irishmen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As an Irishman, <br>tis my prerogative<br>To be an authority on all things<br>Great and small</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As an &quot;old&quot; Irishman <br>it's my fate<br>Of late (and as always) <br>To simply know it all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As an old Irishman of visage worn<br>Of craggy face, rheumy blue eyes<br>With clothing crudely rent and worn<br>Prone to ale, stout and whisky sighs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As an old wise, wizened Irishman<br>Who loves the winter as a wondrous thing<br>But as sure it is, I'm an old Irishman<br>I treasure most…the Irish Spring</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a wise, wizened, oft inebriated Irishman<br>Given well to know that one's only given so many things<br>I relish the pleasure of the Springs I have left<br>Until this old wrinkled Irishman takes wing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As when this old Irishman <br>leaves the moor and the glen <br>There's but a few things I'll rue<br>To not see nor to hear once again</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ne'er again see na' more The hind end of Winters…<br>ne'er hear &quot;Danny boy&quot; pluck again at me heartstrings…<br>And Na' more to smell the cold Irish sea<br>Nor know the fresh faces of fine Irish Springs</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Whalen">David Whalen</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=366523" data-title="Springtime and Old Irishmen de David Whalen" data-description="As an Irishman, tis my prerogative To be an authority on all things Great and small As an &quot;old&quot; Irishman it's my fate Of late (and as always) To simply know it all As an old Irishman of visage worn Of craggy face, rheumy blue eyes W..."></div> </div> </div>

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