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TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 12. OLDEN THOUGHTS, by                    
First Line: I love to talk of old things and old times
Last Line: Receives a vision of eternal truth.
Subject(s): Thought; Thinking


I love to talk of old things and old times,
Old books, old friends, old manners, and beguile
The passing hours with the olden rhymes,
Review the vagaries of each, ancient style,
And like the poet of an age that's gone
My days among the dead are often passed.
I see the mighty minds of old shine on,
Their lustre ne'er bedimmed nor e'er out-classed.

For in those old thoughts we but live again,
And what is life but simply doing o'er
The old time things with all their joy and pain,
And modern wisdom is but ancient lore.
Eternity, when summed up, means but this;
There is no old, there is no new, and youth
When touched by Time's regenerating kiss
Receives a vision of eternal truth.





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