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“You are old, “ the young man said
“And your hair has become very white,
And yet you incessantly stand on your head---
Do you think, at your age, it is right?”
“In my youth, “ the father replied to his son,
“I feared it might injure my brain;
But, now that I’m perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.”
“You are old,” said the youth, “as I mentioned before
And have grown most uncommonly fat,
Yet you turned a back somersault in at the door
Pray, what is the reason of that?”
“ In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
“I kept all my limbs supple
By the use of this ointment – one shilling the box –
Allow me to sell you a couple?”
“You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak---
Pray, how did you manage to do it?”
“In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw
Has lasted the rest of my life.”
“You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balance an eel on the end of your nose---
What made you so awfully clever?”
“I have answered three questions, and that is enough,”
Said the father, “Don’t give yourself airs!”
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I’ll kick you downstairs.”

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from Alice .​.​. Poems by Lewis Carroll (2015), released November 2, 2016

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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