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Show AFTER FORTY, After forty, locks grow thinner, We grow itouter-there'i the rub I Linger lonr o'er our dinner, Shirk the matutinal tub. Alter forty we get Uury. ; To the la4s the girls resign i ThT may f rt with Dot and Dataf Whflit we loiter o'er our wlnel After totly we discover Aches and pains distinctly new, Onoe a lobster salad lover. How we court the homely stewj After forty adgeta find m, Sad to tell, as easy prey, , leaving hghtsomeness behind us We grow graver day by day t After forty, saucy misaffl Treat us like their own papas; Ko fear now of stolen kisses; BilWts doux Irate mammas! But, their whit arms calmly reetinf On our shoulders, if you please, ' They will ask 0 am not jesting) After our rheumatic knees I After forty we're approaching Fogeydom so Ethel thinks; And we growl at aught encroaching On our precious forty winks. O'er a stile we crawl with caution, We, once agile as a roe; for life's antumn is our portion, And Its spring want long ago! After forty, graybeards claim 'is Quite as one of them ah me I ' Ken of sixty thus defame us We are only forty-three ! Old Jim Crow, too, scrawls with pleas lira After forty on our phii 1 Time who picks our locks at leisure, Winks at wigs the horrid quit I What's the moral of the matter? This, and lay It well to heart-After heart-After forty cease light chatter, Act no more the stripling's parti Let us take with resignation In old fogies' ranks a place; Tie an art worth cultivation, i ' That of growing old with grace! St. James' Oasette. |