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Lo steadfast and serene	A
In patient pause between	A
The seen and the unseen	A
What gentle zephyrs fan	B
Your silken silver hair	C
And what diviner air	C
Breathes round you like a prayer	C
Old Man	B
	-
Can you in nearer view	D
Of Glory pierce the blue	D
Of happy Heaven through	D
And listening mutely can	B
Your senses dull to us	E
Hear Angel voices thus	E
In chorus glorious	E
Old Man	B
	-
In your reposeful gaze	F
The dusk of Autumn days	F
Is blent with April haze	F
As when of old began	B
The bursting of the bud	G
Of rosy babyhood	H
When all the world was good	H
Old Man	B
	-
And yet I find a sly	I
Little twinkle in your eye	I
And your whisperingly shy	I
Little laugh is simply an	B
Internal shout of glee	J
That betrays the fallacy	J
You'd perpetrate on me	J
Old Man	B
	-
So just put up the frown	K
That your brows are pulling down	K
Why the fleetest boy in town	K
As he bared his feet and ran	B
Could read with half a glance	L
And of keen rebuke perchance	L
Your secret countenance	M
Old Man	B
	-
Now honestly confess	N
Is an old man any less	N
Than the little child we bless	N
And caress when we can	B
Isn't age but just a place	O
Where you mask the childish face	O
To preserve its inner grace	O
Old Man	B
	-
Hasn't age a truant day	P
Just as that you went astray	P
In the wayward restless way	P
When brown with dust and tan	B
Your roguish face essayed	P
In solemn masquerade	P
To hide the smile it made	P
Old Man	B
	-
Now fair and square and true	D
Don't your old soul tremble through	D
As in youth it used to do	D
When it brimmed and overran	B
With the strange enchanted sights	Q
And the splendors and delights	Q
Of the old Arabian Nights	Q
Old Man	B
	-
When haply you have fared	P
Where glad Aladdin shared	P
His lamp with you and dared	P
The Afrite and his clan	B
And with him clambered through	D
The trees where jewels grew	D
And filled your pockets too	D
Old Man	B
	-
Or with Sinbad at sea	J
And in veracity	J
Who has sinned as bad as he	J
Or would or will or can	B
Have you listened to his lies	R
With open mouth and eyes	R
And learned his art likewise	R
Old Man	B
	-
And you need not deny	I
That your eyes were wet as dry	I
Reading novels on the sly	I
And review them if you can	B
And the same warm tears will fall	S
Only faster that is all	S
Over Little Nell and Paul	S
Old Man	B
	-
Oh you were a lucky lad	P
Just as good as you were bad	P
And the host of friends you had	P
Charley Tom and Dick and Dan	B
And the old School Teacher too	D
Though he often censured you	D
And the girls in pink and blue	D
Old Man	B
	-
And as often you have leant	P
In boyish sentiment	P
To kiss the letter sent	P
By Nelly Belle or Nan	B
Wherein the rose's hue	D
Was red the violet blue	D
And sugar sweet and you	D
Old Man	B
	-
So to day as lives the bloom	T
And the sweetness and perfume	T
Of the blossoms I assume	T
On the same mysterious plan	B
The Master's love assures	U
That the selfsame boy endures	U
In that hale old heart of yours	U
Old Man	B

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