Though oft with even's shade
I see that great head from the hill,
Unstable as the Cheshire cat's,
Look down therefrom and fade.
Two quotations from The Publisher's Circular:—
"Mr. Robert Bowes (who by the way is in his sixty-seventh year)...."
"Mr. Robert Bowes is in his seventy-ninth year.... But then he is much younger than many older men."
So are all of us. Mr. Bowes's distinction is in being twelve years younger than himself.