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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At A Meeting Of Friends</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AUGUST 29, 1859</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I REMEMBER--why, yes! God bless me! and was it so long ago?<br>I fear I'm growing forgetful, as old folks do, you know;<br>It must have been in 'forty--I would say 'thirty-nine--<br>We talked this matter over, I and a friend of mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said, 'Well now, old fellow, I'm thinking that you and I,<br>If we act like other people, shall be older by and by;<br>What though the bright blue ocean is smooth as a pond can be,<br>There is always a line of breakers to fringe the broadest sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'We're taking it mighty easy, but that is nothing strange,<br>For up to the age of thirty we spend our years like Change;<br>But creeping up towards the forties, as fast as the old years fill,<br>And Time steps in for payment, we seem to change a bill.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I know it,' I said, 'old fellow; you speak the solemn truth;<br>A man can't live to a hundred and likewise keep his youth;<br>But what if the ten years coming shall silver-streak my hair,<br>You know I shall then be forty; of course I shall not care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'At forty a man grows heavy and tired of fun and noise;<br>Leaves dress to the five-and-twenties and love to the silly boys;<br>No foppish tricks at forty, no pinching of waists and toes,<br>But high-low shoes and flannels and good thick worsted hose.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But one fine August morning I found myself awake<br>My birthday:--By Jove, I'm forty! Yes, forty, and no mistake!<br>Why, this is the very milestone, I think I used to hold,<br>That when a fellow had come to, a fellow would then be old!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But that is the young folks' nonsense; they're full of their<br>foolish stuff;<br>A man's in his prime at forty,--I see that plain enough;<br>At fifty a man is wrinkled, and may be bald or gray;<br>I call men old at fifty, in spite of all they say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last comes another August with mist and rain and shine;<br>Its mornings are slowly counted and creep to twenty-nine,<br>And when on the western summits the fading light appears,<br>It touches with rosy fingers the last of my fifty years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There have been both men and women whose hearts were firm and bold,<br>But there never was one of fifty that loved to say 'I'm old';<br>So any elderly person that strives to shirk his years,<br>Make him stand up at a table and try him by his peers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now here I stand at fifty, my jury gathered round;<br>Sprinkled with dust of silver, but not yet silver-crowned,<br>Ready to meet your verdict, waiting to hear it told;<br>Guilty of fifty summers; speak! Is the verdict _old_.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No! say that his hearing fails him; say that his sight grows dim;<br>Say that he's getting wrinkled and weak in back and limb,<br>Losing his wits and temper, but pleading, to make amends,<br>The youth of his fifty summers he finds in his twenty friends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><div class=q>
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I REMEMBER--why, yes! God bless me! and was it so long ago?
I fear I'm growing forgetful, as old folks do, you know;
It must have been in 'forty--I would say 'thirty-nine--
We talked this matter over, I and a friend of mine.

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