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. 2000 Feb 5;320(7231):348.

On ageing: contentment

PMCID: PMC1127141  PMID: 10657331

If I live to be old, for I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town; May I have a warm house with a stone at the gate And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate. May I govern my passion with an absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away, Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.

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Theater of Musick, Walter Pope, 1630-1714

Submitted by Fred Charatan, retired geriatric psychiatrist, Florida


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