Walter Scott on Retirement
1771–1832 Scotland
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As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
The Lady of the Lake (1810)
Thus pleasures fade away;
Youth, talents, beauty, thus decay,
And leave us dark, forlorn, and gray.
Marmion (1808)
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want can quench the eye's bright grace.
Marmion (1808)
Thus aged men, full loth and slow,
The vanities of life forego,
And count their youthful follies o'er,
Till Memory lends her light no more.
Rokeby (1813)
On his bold visage middle age
Had slightly press'd its signet sage.
Lady of the Lake (1810)