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• You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as eve
  Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose -- What made you so awfully clever?...
• You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than sue
  Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak -- Pray, how did you manage to do it?...
• You are old," said the youth, "and I'm told by my peers That your lectures bore people to death.
  Yet you talk at one hundred conventions per year -- Don't you think that you should save your breath?...
• You are old," said the youth, "and I'm told by my peers That your lectures bore people to death.
  Yet you talk at one hundred conventions per year -- Don't you think that you should save your breath?...
• You are old, Father William," the young man said, "All your papers these days look the same
  Those William's would be better unread -- Do these facts never fill you with shame?...
• You are old, father William," 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?...
• You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than sue
  Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak -- Pray, how did you manage to do it?...