He replied: 'When I had obtained children I left off childishness.

He replied: 'When I had obtained children I left off childishness.' Where is youth when age has changed my ringlets? And the change of time is a sufficient monitor. When thou art old abstain from puerility. Leave play and jokes to youths. Seek not a youth's hilarity in an old man For the water gone from the brook returns no more. When the harvest-time of a field arrives It will no longer wave in the breeze like a young crop. The period of youth has departed.

Alas, for those heart-enchanting times. The force of the lion's claws is gone. Now we are satisfied with…