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Show 4 1 1 Walt Mason j j USELESS REGRETS j I'm old and badly on the blink. 1 have j no brains with which to think no teeth with which to eit my head is bald, my I cars are blind, and rhcumatlz, the com pound kind. Is sizzling In my feet. I often I gnash my toothless Jaws, and wring my hands, and ample cause, regretting past mistakes I once was quite a husky lad. who didn't need a liver pad, and knew no pains or aches. I didn't guard my precious preci-ous health, which was a better thing than wenlth a better thing than fame, I Jogged along with hocdleaa fools and violated vio-lated all the rulos. and now I m stltf and lame. I trace each ailment to Its source, to conduct loollsh, vain and coarse. In I daya when I was young. because of j breaks made long ago I now have corns i on every toe a spavin on each lung. I I SCO the young folks go their wa. and . turn the night time Into day. where 1 sports chase by In streams; thev point the town three shades of red when thev I should safely be In bed. and dreaming moral dreams And when they're old they'll pay the bill; they'll look back from life's western hill regretting conduct wrong; and there would be no bills to pay had they but walked the narrow way when they wcro young and strong oo |