Don Juan 03-059
Canto the Third

     LIX
It is a hard although a common case
     To find our children running restive-they
In whom our brightest days we would retrace,
     Our little selves re-form'd in finer clay,
Just as old age is creeping on apace,
     And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,
They kindly leave us, though not quite alone,
But in good company-the gout or stone.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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