“The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth”
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
“Youth is fair, a graceful stag,
Leaping, playing in a park.
Age is gray, a toothless hag,
Stumbling in the dark.”
Sewing the Wedding Gown, 1906. Nine One-Act Plays from Yiddish. Translated by Bessie F. White, Boston, John W. Luce & Co., 1932, p. 127.
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Age is gray, a toothless hag,
Stumbling in the dark." by Isaac Leib Peretz?
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