<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508229" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Birthday</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(16th January 1949)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thank whatever gods may be<br>For all the happiness that's mine;<br>That I am festive, fit and free<br>To savour women, wit and wine;<br>That I may game of golf enjoy,<br>And have a formidable drive:<br>In short, that I'm a gay old boy<br>Though I be<br> Seventy-and-five.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My daughter thinks. because I'm old<br>(I'm not a crock, when all is said),<br>I mustn't let my feet get cold,<br>And should wear woollen socks in bed;<br>A worsted night-cap too, forsooth!<br>To humour her I won't contrive:<br>A man is in his second youth<br>When he is<br> Seventy-and-five.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At four-score years old age begins,<br>And not till then, I warn my wife;<br>At eighty I'll recant my sins,<br>And live a staid and sober life.<br>But meantime let me whoop it up,<br>And tell the world that I'm alive:<br>Fill to the brim the bubbly cup -<br>Here's health to<br> Seventy-and-five!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</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=508229" data-title="Birthday de Robert William Service" data-description="(16th January 1949) I thank whatever gods may be For all the happiness that's mine; That I am festive, fit and free To savour women, wit and wine; That I may game of golf enjoy, And have a formidable drive: In short, that I'm a gay old boy Though..."></div> </div> </div>

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