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[With steady but increasing pace the world is approaching a / point at which the cleverness of the young will amount to a / social problem. Already things are getting uncomfortable for / persons of age and sobriety, whose notion of happiness is to / ruminate a few solid and simple ideas in freedom from / disturbance. -- _Macmillan's Magazine._]
O my Children, do you hear your elders sighing? / Do you wonder that senility should find / Your encyclopaedic knowledge somewhat trying / To the ordinary mind? / In the heyday of a former generation, / Some respect for our intelligence was shown; / And it's hard for us to cotton / To the fact that _you've_ forgotten / More than _we_ have ever known!