<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=516363" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>And If An Old Man Dies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AND IF AN OLD MAN DIES <br>(Yet another reflection on Koheleth) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if an old man dies <br>And leaves behind him nothing-<br>And if an old man dies and leaves behind <br>Much family and wealth <br>And friends who remember him-<br>And if an old man dies <br>And leaves behind him <br>A reverenced work <br>Esteemed through many generations- <br>And if an old man dies<br>With a name mankind wishes to take with it to its own grave-<br> <br>And if an old man dies <br>And nothing survives of humanity <br>And all his works and wishes <br>Bound up with the being of others<br>Who earthbound will die with the Earth <br>Or transformed into other kinds of being elsewhere<br>Lose eventually their essential humanity-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if an old man dies<br>As all die <br>And if we stand forever alone in a universe unknown, <br>Then what else is there but praying to God <br>And hoping <br>That somehow beyond it all in some way we cannot now understand <br>An old man‘s death will be more or less <br>Than what we can think or know it to be now-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if an old man dies, <br>And somehow never dies <br>And if God saves us all <br>And if we are surprised</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shalom+Freedman">Shalom Freedman</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=516363" data-title="And If An Old Man Dies de Shalom Freedman" data-description="AND IF AN OLD MAN DIES (Yet another reflection on Koheleth) And if an old man dies And leaves behind him nothing- And if an old man dies and leaves behind Much family and wealth And friends who remember him- And if an old man dies And leave..."></div> </div> </div>

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