Three Score and Ten, also from the fishing community, was first published as a poem in a Grimsby newspaper after the great storm in the 1880's. A.E. your group friendship is very special I am so very glad I read your poem and explanation! A fine write and clip Gold. Wishing your friend a Happy Birthday! When I’m three score years and ten Aging is a lottery. CARPE DIEM ANDY and remember you are only promised (3 x 20) + 10 ~ but the averge UK age for men is now 82 ~ so you've got another DOZEN ~ we are fortunate to live in the UK in the 21st C Angela & I will both be happy to pay another 2k in Tax To keep NHS afloat ~ what about you ? Silence is not always golden. As the three score years and ten has come, A time to once more reflect, Reflect on your life. She just expressed a strong desire and I felt more privileged than pressured. Anyway I digress. As with many other Biblical phrases, this was picked up by Shakespeare. Nothing apparently. My mom’s decline and death was a shock to everyone including herself. I think he worried about Nana finding him dead on her own. So difficult. I am sad for you. A perfect Nat King Cole song! © Jonathan Robin robi3_0020 4 November 1974The Sage’s Response to the SeptuagenarianHow many earthly empiresthe circling sun must set? Thank you Kay. I have been blessed. Thank goodness Celia didn’t make me promise to help her exit early from her life: that would have been a heavy load. yes, on New Year’s Day Three score and ten: The seconds turn into minutes, then to hours. My grandmother often said she did not want to become a burden to my mother, so she remarried at the age of 76. Celia on a mountain. Thank you Brian, I will fill those twelve years with memories. (Hybridanelle) by Steven Beesley Nov 21, 2005 category : Miscellaneous / Misc. I’ll leave before I start to leak Verse 10. It’s been four years and I miss her very much. People are complicated, aren’t they… I mean we? I arrived in Melbourne (after a 3day bus ride across the mostly unsealed Nullabor) I was knackered and we were faced with a telegram on her demise! My parents did not discuss death at all, but they did both say clearly that they were to be cremated and their ashes scattered. I miss her every day even though it’s been 10 years. Because this has always been true, how odd is the notion that everyone should die at the same age. Extraordinary!! Threescore years and Ten October’s moon is wane, May’s sun may not be here: how many Springs remain my weary way to cheer? Rachel McAlpine writes, blogs, draws and podcasts here. and share with care, and that’s the one p.s. And Kayti, you know you still give heaps in your blog and no doubt in person, as you must be aware. When you turn around at last I’m gone, I’m done, I’m down a crevasse one last fling and I’m off your backs I won’t be a bother to you any more I’ll slip through a crack, I won’t be back.” I didn’t drag her to the ice nor did I have to hide my eyes The song by Nat King Cole was one of the top songs of 1948. Great song great write and a great relationship. This seems a low estimate for the time of Moses, since he himself died at the ago of a hundred and twenty (Deuteronomy 34:7), Aaron at the age of a hundred and twenty-three (Numbers 33:39), and Miriam at an age which was even more advanced (Numbers 20:1; comp. so listen with both ears. Dad died, finally Mum went to see about her problems…but by then it was far to late! All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge... Recite this poem (upload your own video or voice file). This is my desire, dear daughter, But my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and four months later gone. © Jonathan Robin robi3_0020 4 November 1974 The Sage’s Response to the Septuagenarian How many … Thank you for your comments, much appreciated. He was a proud man. After all, your Nana surely knew him as well as any. Let that be the age at which But now another milestone is reached. I’d be a taker a breaker a faker At 80 I ran up the stairs to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Nat King Cole was a great singer and before that he played jazz. Thank you Laura, yes I sent him the poem and hope to hear from him. A few days before she died, finally my brother told her that I was coming home with my then husband (whom neither had met)…we had wanted it to be surprise, and actually no one had told us either how ill she was. I’ll peak, I’ll be complete. Deterioration slowly began at 85, and now at 90, I still feel there is more to give though perhaps not so often. Perhaps if we miss someone every day, they are in a way still with us. In fact when we had done this for each of them it seemed wrong to have no mention of them, so we had bronze memorial plaques put u[p for them on the memorial wall at Purewa cemetery, close t their old home in Auckland. Cruel, for her truth was heavy. In Macbeth, 1605, we have: Threescore and ten I … That makes the dangerous business of sharing my memories worthwhile. He had terrible emphysema and one weekend when my aunty and uncle were staying with them,he got up for the toilet on the Sunday morning and collapsed in the hallway and died. “Don’t let me be a burden, she said my eyes would fail, my legs would fall https://writeintolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/3-score-years-and-ten.mp3, https://writeintolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/3-score-years-and-ten.m4a. (I can’t tell you my thoughts…it makes me angry even all these long years later…). and leave me there and turn your back. 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