Quote#Friendship
I am not old, — I cannot be old
Quote byMartin Farquhar Tupper · 1810–1889
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Thousand Lines (1846), The Song of Seventy.
English (original)
I am not old, — I cannot be old, Though threescore years and ten Have wasted away, like a tale that is told, The lives of other men: I am not old ; though friends and foes Alike have gone to their graves, And left me alone to my joys or my woes, As a rock in the midst of the waves.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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