"Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We……" — Pierre-Jean de Beranger

"Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!"

Pierre-Jean de Beranger

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