{"id":269,"date":"2017-02-28T23:45:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T23:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/?p=269"},"modified":"2017-02-28T23:45:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T23:45:49","slug":"you-are-old-father-william-poem-by-lewis-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/audio-recordings\/you-are-old-father-william-poem-by-lewis-carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"You are Old, Father William &#8211; Poem by Lewis Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poem 59 - 100 days of poetry<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You Are Old Father William - Lewis Carroll by Rob Goll\" width=\"525\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F310007719&show_artwork=true&maxheight=788&maxwidth=525\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n\u201cYou are old, Father William,\u201d the young man said,<br \/>\n\u201cAnd your hair has become very white;<br \/>\nAnd yet you incessantly stand on your head \u2013<br \/>\nDo you think, at your age, it is right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my youth,\u201d Father William replied to his son,<br \/>\n\u201cI feared it might injure the brain;<br \/>\nBut, now that I\u2019m perfectly sure I have none,<br \/>\nWhy, I do it again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are old,\u201d said the youth, \u201cas I mentioned before,<br \/>\nAnd have grown most uncommonly fat;<br \/>\nYet you turned a back-somersault in at the door \u2013<br \/>\nPray, what is the reason of that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my youth,\u201d said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,<br \/>\n\u201cI kept all my limbs very supple<br \/>\nBy the use of this ointment \u2013 one shilling the box \u2013<br \/>\nAllow me to sell you a couple?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are old,\u201d said the youth, \u201cand your jaws are too weak<br \/>\nFor anything tougher than suet;<br \/>\nYet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak \u2013<br \/>\nPray, how did you manage to do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my youth,\u201d said his father, \u201cI took to the law,<br \/>\nAnd argued each case with my wife;<br \/>\nAnd the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,<br \/>\nHas lasted the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are old,\u201d said the youth, \u201cone would hardly suppose<br \/>\nThat your eye was as steady as ever;<br \/>\nYet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose \u2013<br \/>\nWhat made you so awfully clever?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have answered three questions, and that is enough,\u201d<br \/>\nSaid his father; 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