It is a wondrous thing to be born old
Yet have the muscles of the very young;
To know and never have to have been told
Yet speak with spry and unashamed tongue
About whatever strikes your fancy; to
Be sure for double reasons - age is so
Because it rests assured of what it knew,
While youth is certain and needs not to know -
To say I will not - or I will - and be
So definite, without experience;
To look in life and simultaneously
See first impressions and remembrance.
Yet had I been born young, I'm sure I'd say
That youth alone was the supremest way.
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