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Old Age

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Title:     Old Age
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [More Titles by Goethe]

OLD age is courteous--no one more:
For time after time he knocks at the door,
But nobody says, "Walk in, sir, pray!"
Yet turns he not from the door away,
But lifts the latch, and enters with speed.
And then they cry "A cool one, indeed!"


1814.






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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem: Old Age

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