ADVANCING AGE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 213, 30 July 1887, Page 3

ADVANCING AGE.

(After Vandyke Brown.) When I had lived of years a hrace I thought little o£ life's long race. One year roll'd hy, I then thought more ; JNly brother looked old— ho was four. When I was four, strange to relate, Then I thought people old at eight. My eighth year camo, and smile, ye men) I said, ' A man 1 11 Le at ten." Bui, having 1 reached my first decade, Folks of sixteen looked far more staid. .Sixteen passed with peace and plenty ; Trouhles come, thought I, with twenty. But when I'd lived of yenrs a score, Says I, " Six years, and life's a bore.' But here am I, near twenty-six, "iTol age h«i3 played i'ew ot her tricks. "Via truo my hair is somewhat thin, And to look youn 0 " I shave my chin. 'Tis true thai rogue across the sea Says " uncle !" when she speaks of mo True, grief's shadow has not passed me o'or True, a d. ar tace I shall see no more P-n-, believe mo, folks, that up to date I £<. el a3 young as when only eight Perhaps, T am a littlo more staid In my old ideas, some changes made ; But wondering still, while years roll past .So folks get to tcel old ut last? It. E. Trahct. Auckland, July, 18S7