The Effulgence Within: Cheer up from the gathering darkness of old age

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Monday, April 20, 2020

Cheer up from the gathering darkness of old age

“Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying; My dog and I are old, too old for roving. Man, whose young passion sets the spindrift flying, Is soon too lame to march, too cold for loving.” The British Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967, John Masefield wrote this poem “On Growing Old”, in 1919 when he was... Sign in to see full entry.

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