Oliver Wendell Holmes: Poetry
the old man dreams
which line conveys the idea that both power and certain rewards come with age
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These lines speak to both the wisdom and power that comes with old age. The speaker would give them up in a second for a moment of youth.
I ’d rather laugh a bright-haired boy Than reign a gray-beard king! Off with the spoils of wrinkled age! Away with learning’s crown! Tear out life’s wisdom-written page, And dash its trophies down!
