Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: II. Life | | Healthful Old Age | | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| | From “As You Like It,” Act II. Sc. 2.
ADAM.—Let me be your servant; | |
| Though I look old, yet am I strong and lusty: | |
| For in my youth I never did apply | |
| Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; | |
| Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo | 5 |
| The means of weakness and debility. | |
| Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, | |
| Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; | |
| I ’ll do the service of a younger man | |
| In all your business and necessities. | 10 | | | |
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