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!"