Beautiful Old Age
D. H. Lawrence
1885 to 1930
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Look at my mother, how rich and still she is! -
they would ripen like apples, and be scented like pippins
in their old age.
and wrinkled ripe fulfilment.
Fragrant like yellowing leaves, and dim with the soft
to be full of the peace that comes of experience
lived undaunted and unsoured with accepted lies
when one is tired of love.
stillness and satisfaction of autumn.
It ought to be lovely to be old
It must be wonderful to live and grow old.
Soothing, old people should be, like apples
And a young man should think: By Jove
my father has faced all weathers, but it's been a life!
The wrinkled smile of completeness that follows a life
And a girl should say: