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Is it parting with the roundness	A
Of the smoothly moulded cheek	B
Is it losing from the dimples	A
Half the flashing joy they speak	B
Is it fading of the lustre	C
From the wavy golden hair	D
Is it finding on the forehead	E
Graven lines of thought and care	D
	-
Is it dropping as the rose leaves	A
Drop their sweetness overblown	F
Household names that once were dearer	C
More familiar than our own	F
Is it meeting on the pathway	G
Faces strange and glances cold	H
While the soul with moan and shiver	C
Whispers sadly 'Growing old '	-
	-
Is it frowning at the folly	I
Of the ardent hopes of youth	J
Is it cynic melancholy	I
At the rarity of truth	J
Is it disbelief in loving	K
Selfish hate or miser's greed	L
Then such blight of Nature's noblest	M
Is a 'growing old' indeed	L
	-
But the silver thread that shineth	J
Whitely in the thinning tress	A
And the pallor where the bloom was	A
Need not tell of bitterness	A
And the brow's more earnest writing	K
Where it once was marble fair	D
May be but the spirit's tracing	K
Of the peace of answered prayer	D
	-
If the smile has gone in deeper	C
And the tears more quickly start	N
Both together meet in music	O
Low and tender in the heart	N
And in others' joy and gladness	A
When the life can find its own	F
Surely angels learn to listen	P
To the sweetness of the tone	F
	-
Nothing lost of all we planted	Q
In the time of budding leaves	A
Only some things bound in bundles	A
And set by our precious sheaves	A
Only treasure kept in safety	I
Out of reach and out of rust	R
Till we clasp it grown the richer	C
Through the glory of our trust	R
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On the gradual sloping pathway	G
As the passing years decline	S
Gleams a golden love light falling	K
Far from upper heights divine	S
And the shadows from that brightness	A
Wrap them softly in their fold	H
Who unto celestial whiteness	A
Walk by way of growing old	H

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