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{{quote|''Oh, they say that I'm feeble with age, Maggie; my steps are much slower than then.
My face is a well written page, Maggie, and time all along was the pen.
Oh, they say that we've outlived our time, Maggie, as dated as songs that we've sung,
But to me, you're as fair as you were, Maggie, when you and I were young.''|''[[wikipedia:When You and I Were Young, Maggie|When You and I Were Young, Maggie]]'', as performed by Kilbrannan ([http://members.shaw.ca/tunebook/maggie.htm original lyrics by George Washington Johnson])}}
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* The [[Boys Love]] manga ''[[Future Lovers]]'' has a dream sequence in its final chapter featuring an elderly Akira and Kento. When Akira wakes up to find he's still young, Kento tells him "I have no intention of dying any time soon. You'll live to be a hundred and I'll be ninety-nine!"
* In [[Hetalia]], the young French soldier whom France befriends discusses [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]] with his wife, and then finishes invoking the trope:
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== Film ==
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* [[The Beatles|Paul McCartney]] asks his lover if she'll stay with him in "When I'm Sixty-Four". The [[Irony]] that Paul was in the middle of a nasty divorce from Heather Mills ''when he was 64'' was lost on no-one.
* Ridiculed in "When You're Old And Gray" by [[Tom Lehrer]].
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Let's find love while we may
Because I know I'll hate you
When you are old and gray }}
* The old music-hall song, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crP2YkRTRKg My Old Dutch]":
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And it don't seem a day too much.
Oh, there ain't a lady living in the land
As I'd swap for my dear old Dutch. }}
* The old parlor song, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsf0Aj0cPc Silver Threads Among the Gold]" (beloved of [[Looney Tunes|Warner Bros. cartoons]]):
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Silver threads among the gold
Shine upon my brow today;
Life is fading fast away;
But, my darling, you will be
Always young and fair to me, }}
* [[Ludo]]'s song from their latest album, "Anything for You," invokes this:
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All of this is true
But the best story that I could ever tell
Is the one where I am growing old with you. }}
* Title of one of the last songs [[John Lennon]] ever wrote. [[Tear Jerker|Sadly averted]].
* [[Journey (band)|Journey]]'s song "After All these Years" is sung from the point of view of a fellow who is [[Happily Married]] and utterly delighted that he's had the chance to have a long life alongside his wife.
* The premise of [[Stan Rogers]]' "Forty-Five Years" from his debut album, "Fogarty's Cove".
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You say you've been twice a wife and you're through with life
Oh, but honey, what the hell's it for?
After 23 years, you'd think I could find a way to let you know somehow
That I want to see your smiling face forty-five years from now. }}
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== Poetry ==
* Darby and Joan, from a poem by Henry Woodfall published in 1735.
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You've often regarded with wonder.
He's dropsical, she is sore-eyed
Yet they're ever uneasy asunder. }}
* [[Trope Namer]] is the Robert Browning poem [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rabbi_Ben_Ezra "Rabbi Ben Ezra:"]
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The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith, "A whole I plann'd,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all nor be afraid!" }}
* [[Robert Burns]]'s "John Anderson":
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When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonnie brow was brent;
But now your brow is beld, John,
Your locks are like the snow;
But blessings on your frosty pow,
John Anderson, my jo! }}
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