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"You are old, father William," the young man said, / "And your hair has become very white: / And yet you incessantly stand on your head -- / Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
"In my youth," father William replied to his son, / "I feared it might injure the brain: / But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, / Why, I do it again and again."