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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=38080" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Good Old Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Children, you will soon lay me in the ground. Then you are to be cheerful, and drink some of this wine; for I have lived a joyful life before God all my days." (Life of Ernst Maurice Arndt. London. 1879. P. 38.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old man sate beside the fire,<br> His years fourscore and two,<br>His locks were thin and wintry-white,<br> But his eyes were bright and blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His children's children round him stood,<br> His face with joy did shine;<br>And he called for a glass, and placed on board<br> A pint of the ruby wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he said, "Now list to me, brave boys:<br> I've lived a life, thank God!<br>Full of bright hours and happy days,<br> And soon beneath the sod</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Your hands must lay my head. This glass<br> I fill with thanks to Him<br>Who made my cup through fourscore years<br> With joy to overbrim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"There might be clouds; but they have passed;<br> For this I surely knew,<br>Behind the clouds there dwelt a sun<br> And a dome of glorious blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"There might be frets; but not with me<br> Might fret and murmur dwell;<br>For God, I knew, was judge of all,<br> And still he judgeth well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Then fill the sparkling glass, brave boys,<br> And quaff the wine with me<br>His gift whence flows to men all light<br> And love and liberty!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And keep a stout heart in your breast,<br> And trust in God, brave boys;<br>And march right forward without fear,<br> And evermore rejoice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And when you lay my head, brave boys,<br> Beneath the cool green sod,<br>Remember how I walked in strength<br> And joy before my God."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Stuart+Blackie">John Stuart Blackie</a> from <i>Littell's Living Age, vol. 144</i><div class=q>
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