Observations

Four score and more

More still to learn, yearn

For adventure still

Young in the mind

While time moves toward decline

Should I prepare to lie upon my bier

Or open up new vistas still

While to deny time’s passage silly

Accumulated views from mountain’s tops

Stop not the climber from ascent

Fear of those heights

Hides great delights in clouds

Of gloom.

Soon enough all mortal coils

Will be unstrung

What joy eternity

When endless is life’s harmony