<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507082" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Brittle Bones</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though I am an old man<br>With my bones very brittle,<br>Though I am a poor old man<br>Worth very little,<br>Yet I suck at my long pipe<br>At peace in the sun,<br>I do not fret nor much regret<br>That my work is done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I were a young man<br>With my bones full of marrow,<br>Oh, if I were a bold young man<br>Straight as an arrow,<br>And if I had the same years<br>To live once again,<br>I would not change their simple range<br>Of laughter and pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I were a young man<br>And young was my Lily,<br>A smart girl, a bold young man,<br>Both of us silly.<br>And though from time before I knew<br>She'd stab me with pain,<br>Though well I knew she'd not be true,<br>I'd love her again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I were a young man<br>With a brisk, healthy body,<br>Oh, if I were a bold young man<br>With love of rum toddy,<br>Though I knew that I was spiting<br>My old age with pain,<br>My happy lip would touch and sip<br>Again and again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I were a young man<br>With my bones full of marrow,<br>Oh, if I were a bold young man<br>Straight as an arrow,<br>I'd store up no virtue<br>For Heaven's distant plain,<br>I'd live at ease as I did please<br>And sin once again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Graves">Robert Graves</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=507082" data-title="Brittle Bones de Robert Graves" data-description="Though I am an old man With my bones very brittle, Though I am a poor old man Worth very little, Yet I suck at my long pipe At peace in the sun, I do not fret nor much regret That my work is done. If I were a young man With my bones full of marro..."></div> </div> </div>

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