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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 4. PLEASANT THOUGHTS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER
First Line: It will be pleasant when old age shall come
Last Line: You, my friend, in obedience helped me.
Subject(s): Pleasure; Thought; Thinking
First Line: It will be pleasant when old age shall come
Last Line: You, my friend, in obedience helped me.
Subject(s): Pleasure; Thought; Thinking
It will be pleasant when old age shall come
And leave its imprint on life's closing day,
When I, like other mortals, shall succumb
To Time's strict mandate, and at last obey
Dame Nature's laws, immutable, severe,
For me to gaze in retrospective view
Upon the time when I was with you here
And think that I, perhaps, was help to you.
Oh Time whose majesty's enthroned for aye
Can ne'er remove the good which we have done.
Eternity with all it means shall die
Ere one such deed shall fade like setting sun,
And memory shall be forever bright,
And treasured shall that thought forever be,
That while, perhaps, I helped you in the right,
You, my friend, in obedience helped me.
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