Brighten’s Sister-In-Law [or The Carrier's Story]

AT A POINT where the old road crosses
The river, and turns to the right,
I’d camped with the team; and the hosses
Was all fixed up for the night.
I’d been to the town to carry
A load to the Cudgegong;
And I’d taken the youngster, Harry,
On a trip as I’d promis’d him long.

I had seven more, and another
That died at the age of three;
But they all took arter the mother,
And Harry took arter me.
And from the tiniest laddie
’Twas always his fondest dream
To go on the roads with his daddy,
And help him to drive the team.

He was bright at the school and clever,
The best of the youngsters there;

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poem by Henry Lawson
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My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

quote by Armand Assante
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With looks one enthralls..

A youth with a face sings; it catches.
Skill is acquired by experience,
by when one grows old, with charm drained.
Amateur youngsters rule the roost.

A woman with a face is effective in any field.
25.12.2000, Pmdi

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Your are the Taj Mahal

You are a Taj Mahal,
At least to me.
Had I seen you
When I was a child,
When I was a lad,
When I was an adult
Or in middle age.
I would not have,
I could not have,
Observed you, valued you
The way now I do
When I am over aged.
I can see in you
What youngsters fail to.
I can make you
What youngsters know not to.

A literary work merits
By its ablest critics.
You are in bloom

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poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

quote by Elizabeth II
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

quote by Edsger Dijkstra
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A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

Pope Shenouda III in Pope & Patriach of Alexandria
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Camisole

'Hey! My Darling
You look so young today,
What a nice garment you wear?
You arouse this old Man
For the War! '
I saw her innocent cry
That dragged me to our youthfulness!

* Time's a wonderful thief that steals everything from us?

poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Regrets

I left my youth and teeth;
I regretted.
I left my beloved and civil life;
I regretted.
Parents and youngsters left me;
I regretted.
I shall be lost after death;
I now regret.
After death, where is the thought,
To regret?
02.10.2004

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.

quote by Truman Capote
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Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

quote by George Chapman
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And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

quote by Albrecht Durer
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

quote by Carl Sagan
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Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

quote by Mike Ditka
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Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

quote by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth.

quote by Henry Miller
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In a Herber Green Asleep Whereas I Lay

In a herber green asleep whereas I lay,
The birds sang sweet in the middle of the day;
I dreamed fast of mirth and play:
In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure.

Methought I walked still to and fro,
And from her company I could not go;
But when I wak'd it was not so:
In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure.

Therefore my heart is surely pight
Of her alone to have a sight,
Which is my joy and heart's delight:
In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure.

poem by Robert Wever
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His Youth

Dying? I am not dying. Are you mad?
You think I need to ask for heavenly grace?
\I\ think \you\ are a fiend, who would be glad
To see me struggle in death's cold embrace.

'But, man you lie! for I am strong-in truth
Stronger than I have been in years; and soon
I shall feel young again as in my youth,
My glorious youth-life's one great priceless boon.

'O youth, youth, youth! O God, that golden time,
When proud and glad I laughed the hours away.
Why, there's no sacrifice (perhaps no crime)
I'd pause at, could it make me young to-day.

'But I'm not \old\! I grew-just ill, somehow;
Grew stiff of limb, and weak, and dim of sight.

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poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The prejudice of age

I don’t take as great my youngsters
Which they are though
As I took as great my elders
When I’d been young.
I’m adamant with my age.
25.12.2007

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.

quote by Alan Ladd
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