Three score and ten, the psalmist saith,
And half my course is well-nigh run;
I've had my flout at dusty death,
I've had my whack of feast and fun.
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Recalled this tome since half the age
Of title writ upon this page
And glided by without a care
With youthful pleasures taken there
But 50's coming, came the cry
Age delayed is age denied.
But now, alas, with shortened stride
Seventy - new 35.
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Recalled this tome since half the age Of title writ upon this page And glided by without a care With youthful pleasures taken there But 50's coming, came the cry Age delayed is age denied. But now, alas, with shortened stride Seventy - new 35.