Seventy-Two

Music: The Grenadier and the Lady.
Sequenced by Barry Taylor.

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So may your silver years pass pleasantly,
Even as you rest beside the river.
Vanities are gone, ambitions, schemes,
Evanescent as night's vanished dreams,
Nor need you be as prodigal a giver.
There is much that now will never be,
Yet what is, is more alive than ever.

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The current hurries by; the tall grass teems
With creatures, each intent on some endeavour.
Old memories float like white sails out to sea.