May filter in my daily songs.
Longfellow strikes a less pessimistic note:[113]
Morituri Salutamus
Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Cato learned Greek at 80; Sophocles
Wrote his grand Œdipus, and Simonides
Bore off the prize of verse
From his compeers
When each had numbered more than four-score years.