“The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth”
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
“A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.”
The Fountain, st. ?? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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