On both sides!" As the young before, so now

They bade the old man leave abusing thus.

"Let him speak,—I have spoken!" said the youth:

And so died out the wrangle by degrees,

In wretched bickering. "If thou wince at fact,

Behooved thee not prove faulty to myself!"

"Had I died for thee I had faulted more!"

"All 's one, then, for youth's bloom and age to die?"

"Our duty is to live one life, not two!"