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The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

 

Book of Common Prayer (1928)

 

 

 

 

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gloria mundi
12 years ago

And if we can suck up these eloquent words, they’ll nourish us, we’ll live better and enjoy life more. As you said sombrely but truly a while ago, Charles, it’s not so much that we are living longer, we are taking longer to die. nb diff between being alive, and living. I expect we’ve all met very elderly people who are living, and pleased to be so, and not so elderly people who are merely alive, even if their health is better than the ancient joyful ones. Singing carols in an old peoples’ home, our choir met an elderly lady… Read more »

Jonathan
Jonathan
12 years ago

Yes GM, quite; I’d say M. Common Prayer over-generalizes