Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1918 — AS WE GROW OLD [ARTICLE]

AS WE GROW OLD

I’m getting sear and old— I have passed Life’s day of gold, And I’m nearing where the evening breese is sighingl Age—dear fellow!—seems to say: “We have come a long, long way. And there’s little left for us that’s worth the trying 5" , , We have made our journey by Rocky pathways—Age and I And we shared whatever Fortune chanced the giving; Happy we have been and glad, Luckless, too, and drear and sad. But we’ve cheerful been and known the love of living. Now we’ve reached the end at last. Youth and Happiness are past— Tasteless now the cheerful words of sage and poet; . • "You are old,’’ the echoes say; Though we’re silent on our way, In the hearts of us ’tls very well we know it! Not by. gray are we betrayed, Nor our features do they fade: It’s apparent more in our success at wooing; We can still charm maids of Six, And th* “girl" of forty sticks. But the Queen of Twenty-one—there s .nothing doing! i—John D. Wells, Buffalo Evening News.