Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!

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The poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning said: “Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!” The rhyme of the lines is perfect and the meaning of the lines is fascinating. At this point in life, we can no longer get around as easily as we once did.

We may be blind and our hearing may be vain but we still have our mind and our hearts. These things don’t mean we aren’t worth anything anymore and they don’t mean we can’t rise up and do something great. They only mean that we need to slow down and take it easy for a while and take note of what we can still accomplish.

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