Part 3 (1/2)

Old age is a joy, when youth has been well spent

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THE APPROACH OF AGE

Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When tian to play his usual tricks; The locks once coht, Locks of pure brown, displayed the encroaching white; The blood, once fervid, now to cool began, And Ti pressure to subdue the man

I rode or walked as I ont before, But now the bounding spirit was no more; A th distress uest those hills sublime, But said, ”The view is poor, we need not clian to dread The cold neat parlor and gay glazed bed; At hos in my order placed

I ceased to hunt; my horses pleased me less-- My dinner un, but saw the brute Was disappointed that I did not shoot

Mywalks I now could bear to lose, And blessed the shower that gaveon; The active arone; Srew, And new dislike to forms and fashi+ons new

I loved my trees in order to dispose; I numbered peaches, looked how stocks arose; Told the sae Crabbe_

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Age is a , not of years

_G W Curtis_

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Men are as old as they feel, and women as they look

_Italian_

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May you all be as old as I, And see your sons to row; And many a time before you die, Be just as pleased as I ae and faded flowers, no remedies can revive

--_Chinese_

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