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Robert Graves - Brittle BonesRobert Graves - Brittle Bones
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Though I am an old man   With my bones very brittle, Though I am a poor old man   Worth very little, Yet I suck at my long pipe   At peace in the sun, I do not fret nor much regret   That my work is done. If I were a young man   With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man   Straight as an arrow, And if I had the same years   To live once again, I would not change their simple range   Of laughter and pain. If I were a young man   And young was my Lily, A smart girl, a bold young man,   Both of us silly. And though from time before I knew   She`d stab me with pain, Though well I knew she`d not be true,   I`d love her again. If I were a young man   With a brisk, healthy body, Oh, if I were a bold young man   With love of rum toddy, Though I knew that I was spiting   My old age with pain, My happy lip would touch and sip   Again and again. If I were a young man   With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man   Straight as an arrow, I`d store up no virtue   For Heaven`s distant plain, I`d live at ease as I did please   And sin once again.
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