Growing Older

Written by dingdans on October 5th, 2008

A little more tired at the closed of day,
A little less anxious to have our way,
A little less ready to scold and blame,
A little more care for a brother’s name;
And so we are nearing the journey’s end,
Where time and eternity meet and bland.

A little less care fore bonds and gold,
A little more zeal for the days of old;
A broader view and saner mind,
And a little more love for all mankind;
And so we are faring down the way
That leads to the gates of better day.

A little more love for the friends of youth,
A little more zeal for establish truth,
A little more charity for the daily news;
And so we are folding our tents away
And passing in silence at close of day.

A little more leisure to sit and dream,
A little more real the things unseen,
A little nearer to those ahead,
With vision of those long loved and dead;
And so we are going where all must go-
To the place the living may never know.

A little more laughter, a few more tears,
And we shall have told our increasing years.
The book is closed and the prayers are said,
And we are the part of the countless dead;
Thrice happy, then, if some soul can say,
“I live because of their help on the way”

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