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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN PRAISE OF OLD OLD, by CRATES
First Line: Some giddy fools do rev'rend age deride
Last Line: Who old, infirm, and poor, can longer life desire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Krates
Subject(s): Old Age
First Line: Some giddy fools do rev'rend age deride
Last Line: Who old, infirm, and poor, can longer life desire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Krates
Subject(s): Old Age
SOME giddy fools do rev'rend Age deride,
But who enjoy'd it not, untimely died;
We pray we may to good old age attain,
And then of its infirmities complain;
But their insatiate minds I must admire,
Who old, infirm, and poor, can longer life desire.
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