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Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.

By. Walter Learned

To Critics

WHEN I was seventeen I heard

From each censorious tongue,

“I’d not do that if I were you;

You see you’re rather young.”

Now that I number forty years,

I’m quite as often told

Of this or that I should n’t do

Because I’m quite too old.

O carping world! If there ’s an age

Where youth and manhood keep

An equal poise, alas! I must

Have passed it in my sleep.