“I am not old, — I cannot be old,
Though tottering, wrinkled, and gray;
Though my eyes are dim, and my marrow is cold,
Call me not old to-day.”

—  Martin Farquhar Tupper

The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)

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