[Oe List ...] Dear Jaime, Your beautiful mother reminds of of this fine DH Lawrence poem.

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Beautiful Old  Age                             by DH Lawrence
 
It ought to be lovely to be old
to be  full of the peace that comes of experience
and wrinkled ripe  fulfilment.

The wrinkled smile of completeness that follows a  life
lived undaunted and unsoured with accepted lies
they would ripen like  apples, and be scented like pippins
in their old age.

Soothing, old  people should be, like apples
when one is tired of love.
Fragrant like  yellowing leaves, and dim with the soft
stillness and satisfaction of  autumn.

And a girl should say:
It must be wonderful to live and grow  old.
Look at my mother, how rich and still she is! -

And a young man  should think: By Jove
my father has faced all weathers, but it's been a  life!



 
 
Thanks Jaime, Thank you DH Lawrence,
 
Paul
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