Part 1 — TO CRITICS
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When I was seventeen I heard From each censorious tongue, "I'd not do that if I were you; You see you're rather young."
Now that I number forty years, I'm quite as often told Of this or that I shouldn't do Because I'm quite too old.
O carping world! If there's an age Where youth and manhood keep An equal poise, alas! I must Have passed it in my sleep.
Walter Learned [1847-1915]