Life and Time: A Birth-Day Memorial of Seventy Years; With Memories and Reflections for the Aged and the Young (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Life and Time: A Birth-Day Memorial of Seventy Years; With Memories and Reflections for the Aged and the Young

The appearance of this Poem will doubt less be a surprise to others, as its production was to the writer. If it Shall not be deemed preposterous for one to have commenced wri ting in verse, at the age of threescore years and ten, my first apprehensions will be hap pily relieved. But the occasion was inspiring; I had leisure for reflection; and though utterly unused to the production of poetry, I was conscious of the stir of poetical thoughts and imaginings. I felt assured, also, that my chil dren, for whom alone I purposed to write a few lines, would forgive me this folly - if it should he so deemed - of an old man.

The result was a poem, which I had not intended to write; but, as the boy said, when reproved for whistling, It whistled itself!

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