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The compensation of growing old, Peter Walsh thought, coming out of Regent’s Park, and holding his hat in hand, was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained—at last!—the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence,—the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it has been of yore;— Turn wheresoe’er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
The Child is Father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
That is no country for old men.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
