<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Age</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; <br>So calm are we when passions are no more. <br>For then we know how vain it was to boast <br>Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. <br>Clouds of affection from our younger eyes<br>Conceal that emptiness which age descries. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, <br>Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made: <br>Stronger by weakness, wiser men become <br>As they draw near to their eternal home.<br>Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view <br>That stand upon the threshold of the new.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edmund+Waller">Edmund Waller</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=374523" data-title="Old Age de Edmund Waller" data-description="The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which ..."></div> </div> </div>

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