<h3><SPAN name="RESIGNATION" name="RESIGNATION"></SPAN>RESIGNATION.</h3>
<p>When I am only fit to go to bed,
<br/>Or hobble out to sit within the sun,
<br/>Ring down the curtain, say the play is done,
<br/>And the last petals of the poppy shed!
<br/>
<br/>I do not want to live when I am old,
<br/>I have no use for things I cannot love;
<br/>And when the day that I am talking of
<br/>(Which God forfend!) is come, it will be cold.
<br/>
<br/>But if there is another place than this,
<br/>Where all the men will greet me as "Old Man,"
<br/>And all the women wrap me in a smile,
<br/>Where money is more useless than a kiss,
<br/>And good wine is not put beneath the ban,
<br/>I will go there and stay a little while.</p>
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