<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459937" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Birthday Celebration</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How strange it seems, that old age follows youth! <br>when all the world seemed one's own, at that time, <br>with time enough to seek a higher truth -<br>who'd guess the stairs so steep, so slow to climb? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Worn carpets and worn kneecaps are old age<br>- and yet, a blessed time for life of mind: <br>for those who wish, a different sense of wage; <br>free-chosen universal work to find; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and yet more blessed still: that earth-bound soul<br>to meet and greet, and work its soil and flowers; <br>to live with gratitude; and scan the whole<br>to find that One which proves the whole world ours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As iron age yields to the gold of truth, <br>so our old age may find within, true youth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459937" data-title="A Birthday Celebration de Michael Shepherd" data-description="How strange it seems, that old age follows youth! when all the world seemed one's own, at that time, with time enough to seek a higher truth - who'd guess the stairs so steep, so slow to climb? Worn carpets and worn kneecaps are old age - and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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