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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Wisdom

Witter Bynner

OLD man, if I only knew

A quick way to be wise like you!

Young man, this is all I know

To impart before I go:

You must keep your goal in sight

Labor toward it day and night;

Then at last arriving there—

You shall be too old to care.

You would even wiser be

Old man, were you young like me.