Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO DR. FRANCIS N. PELOUBET; ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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TO DR. FRANCIS N. PELOUBET; ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some men in age can well contrive
Last Line: Up to the sunny skies!
Subject(s): Birthdays; Old Age; Peloubet, Francis Nathan (1831-1920)


Some men in age can well contrive
A hearty youth and true;
May I, when I am seventy-five,
Be half as young as you!

To other men the decades bring
Sad wrinkles of the mind,
Dead branches where dead clusters cling,
And frosty ways unkind.

For you, with every added year,
The tree of merry life
Bourgeons with blessedness and cheer,
With happy fruitage rife.

Pray tell the other forest folk
How, out of years and rain,
You fashion such a sturdy oak,
Leafage of heart and brain!

And long may we whom God allows
Around you, sapling-wise,
Look through your green and sunny boughs
Up to the sunny skies!





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