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William Wordsworth on Age

1770–1850 England

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But an old age serene and bright,
And lovely as a Lapland night,
Shall lead thee to thy grave.

A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Thus fares it still in our decay,
And yet the wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.

The monumental pomp of age
Was with this goodly personage;
A stature undepressed in size,
Unbent, which rather seemed to rise
In open victory o'er the weight
Of seventy years, to loftier height.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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