<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537971" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Upon A Venerable Rival</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Full thirty frosts since thou wert young<br>Have chilled the withered grove,<br>Thou wretch! and hast thou lived so long,<br>Nor yet forgot to love?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye sages! spite of your pretences<br>To wisdom, you must own<br>Your folly frequently commences<br>When you acknowledge none.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not that I deem it weak to love,<br>Or folly to admire;<br>But ah! the pangs we lovers prove<br>Far other years require.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unheeded on the youthful brow<br>The beams of Phoebus play;<br>But unsupported age stoops low<br>Beneath the sultry ray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For once, then, if untutored youth,<br>Youth unapproved by years,<br>May chance to deviate into truth,<br>When your experience errs;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For once attempt not to despise<br>What I esteem a rule:<br>Who early loves, though young, is wise,--<br>Who old, though gray, a fool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537971" data-title="Upon A Venerable Rival de William Cowper" data-description="Full thirty frosts since thou wert young Have chilled the withered grove, Thou wretch! and hast thou lived so long, Nor yet forgot to love? Ye sages! spite of your pretences To wisdom, you must own Your folly frequently commences When you acknowl..."></div> </div> </div>

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