Damien slept that first night under a tree amid his rotting brethren :
alone with pestilence. The identification of old age with growing old
must be avoided. Growing old is an emotion which comes over us
at any age. Of two who made love to his daughter, Themistocles
preferred the man of worth to the ne who was rich.
Cover that bosom, I must not see it. Souls are wounded by such things,
and they arouse wicked thoughts. Gone are the days when my heart
was young and gay; Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away;
Gone from the earth to a better land, I know, I hear their gentle voices
calling, "Old Black Joe !" I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending
low; I hear their gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe"