| 1 | His years weigh him down. | |
| 2 | His strength is waning. | |
| 3 | An aged man is but a paltry thing. | |
| 4 | I do not desire to see it diminished, nor would I endeavor to lessen it in any man. | |
| 5 | In his late years, his poetry of mourning for friends were blurry with waning color. |