If you have left your dreams behind,
If hope is cold,
If you no longer look ahead,
If your ambition’s fires are dead –
Then you are old.

But if from life you take the best,
If in life you keep the jest,
If love you hold;
No matter how the years go by,
No matter how the birthdays fly –
You are not old.

H.S. Fritsch

If you have left your dreams behind,
If hope is cold,
If you no longer look ahead,
If your ambition’s fires are dead –
Then you are old.

But if from life you take the best,
If in life you keep the jest,
If love you hold;
No matter how the years go by,
No matter how the birthdays fly –
You are not old.

H.S. Fritsch