StoryTitle("caps", "Old Age") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So calm are we when passions are no more. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For then we know how vain it was to boast ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clouds of affection from our younger eyes ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Conceal that emptiness which age descries. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As they draw near to their eternal home. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That stand upon the threshold of the new.", "") ?>
Poet("Edmund Waller", "1606-1687") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>