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Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

John Keble
Sweet, Men, Age
John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.173
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.