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Robert W Service - The CentenarianRobert W Service - The Centenarian
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Great Grandfather was ninety-nine     And so it was our one dread, That though his health was superfine     He`d fail to make the hundred. Though he was not a rolling stone     No moss he seemed to gather: A patriarch of brawn and bone               Was Great Grandfather. He should have been senile and frail     Instead of hale and hearty; But no, he loved a mug of ale,     A boisterous old party. `As frisky as a cold,` said he,     `A man`s allotted span I`ve lived but now I plan to be               A Centenarian.` Then one night when I called on him     Oh what a change I saw! His head was bowed, his eye was dim,     Down-fallen was his jaw. Said he: `Leave me to die, I pray;     I`m no more bloody use . . . For in my mouth I found today—               A tooth that`s loose.`
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