<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508549" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Scout</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it because I'm bent and grey,<br> Though wearing rather well,<br>That I can slickly get away<br> With all the yarns I tell?<br>Is it because my bleary eye<br> No longer beams with youth<br>That I can plant a whopping lie,<br> And flout the truth?<br> <br>I wonder why folks hark to me<br> Where once they would have laughed?<br>They treat my yarns respectfully,<br> No matter how they're daft.<br>They count the notches on my gun<br> And stroke its polished butt,<br>Wanting to know why every one<br> Of them was cut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Indeed were I to stick to fact<br> Their interest would flag;<br>Dramatically I must act<br> The rôle of scalliwag;<br>A battle veteran to be,<br> A frozen argonaut,<br>A castaway in coral sea,--<br> Such a tommyrot!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so with unction I conceive<br> Invention wild and new,<br>Until I'm coming to believe<br> My taradiddles true . . .<br>Is it because I'm old and sage, <br> I draw a bow that's risky?<br>Or can it be--that lies with age<br> Improve like whisky?</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=508549" data-title="Old Scout de Robert William Service" data-description="Is it because I'm bent and grey, Though wearing rather well, That I can slickly get away With all the yarns I tell? Is it because my bleary eye No longer beams with youth That I can plant a whopping lie, And flout the truth? I wonder why fol..."></div> </div> </div>

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