“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
“Old Tubal Cain was a man of might
In the days when earth was young.”
"Tubal Cain".
Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1851)
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