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Old age

Illustration★★★

Like a morning dream life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.—Richter. Age is a quality of mind, If you’ve left your Dreams behind, If hope is cold, If you no longer look ahead, If your ambition’s fires Are dead, Then you are old!

The point

Richter observes that life grows clearer and brighter the longer we live and the end approaches, paired with a short verse declaring that age is a quality of mind found in those who have abandoned hope and ambition.

Audience
Adults
Tone
Reflective · Hopeful
To tell aloud
under a minute · 73 words
Subjects
PerspectiveHopeAgingAgeOld Age

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