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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOO OLD, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poet's Biography
First Line: They are so young,' she said, a break in her tone
Last Line: To life . . . Till they are old, lonely, and lame!
Subject(s): Old Age
First Line: They are so young,' she said, a break in her tone
Last Line: To life . . . Till they are old, lonely, and lame!
Subject(s): Old Age
"They are so young," she said, a break in her tone,
"So young to go, so young to fight . . . and die!"
I gave a toneless murmur in reply,
Thinking: At least their bodies are full-grown,
Broad-shouldered, narrow-hipped, long in the bone,
And they shall girdle the globe, sailing the sky,
Not rust away at home like you and I,
Reading. Their high adventures are their own!
Too young to die? -- Better than be too old
To fight . . . to share the danger and the fame,
The equatorial heat, the Arctic cold,
The hunt -- in which the hunter is the game,
The game the hunter -- only fools would hold
To life . . . till they are old, lonely, and lame!
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