ACHIEVEMENTS OF OLD AGE.
In reply to an Oxford don, who is alleged to have declared that tho day was coming when men would bo gently chloroformed into the next world at 40 or 60, a correspondent unearthed this from Longfellow's "Morituri Salutamus'': — "Ah, nothing is too late, Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty I Sophocles Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verses from his compeers When each had numbered-four-score years; And Thcophrastus at four-score and ten Had but begun his 'Characters of Men.' Chaucer, at Woodstock, with the nightingales, At sixty wrote 'The Canterbury Tales.' Goethe," at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed 'Fanst' when eighty years wore past."
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 60, 3 May 1912, Page 12
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122ACHIEVEMENTS OF OLD AGE. Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 60, 3 May 1912, Page 12
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