He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.
Lord Byron
Life
He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.
Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 5.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.