Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-26 | Page 7 | Just Folks

l THE SEVERAL AGES This good old world with all its woe woeS And all its cares plenty a-plenty Is still a glorious place to know When one Is nearing twenty i V VAnd And later when youve you've won the hand Of Nellie Jane or Gertie Id I'd say It Is a lovely land When one Is rounding thirty V Adventuring with loss and gain And taking chances sporty With all that age may bring of or pain Life still is sweet at forty V VAnd And though the brown gives way to gray gray A shade some term a aa all nifty nitty Theres There's many a game a man can play Although Althou h hes he's nearing fifty V VV V Though sorrows must more swiftly come With grim old V age encroaching Life Lite is not wholly burdensome When sixty is approaching V The glad grandparent age Is Ls sweet With smiles and glad caresses One still can laugh and love and eat Though seventy he confesses And so 50 for young or middle age Or gray gry old beards and hoary Upon this old worlds world's changing stage Life tells a n. gripping story At twenty with twentY with a a. shout of gl glee e Youth takes what life is giving And shall he come to three seventy-three Hell He'll still be he glad hes he's living V Copyright 1928 1926 Edgar A A. A. A Guest a r