Saturday, November 21, 2020

For Presidents and Others - A Meditation on Aging Gracefully

 

Lawrence Hall

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When a Man is Old

 

For Presidents and Others:

A Meditation on Aging Gracefully

 

Now when a man is young, he gives his strength

In service to his nation and the Faith

In war and peace, and at his family hearth

In work, and in his humble place at Mass

 

But when a man his old, he then should choose

To ‘change his work for a good walking stick

And sit outside the Blue Boar Inn with pipe

And glass and friends and happy memories

 

There is honor in manly endeavors

And honor in finally letting them go

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