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Competition

Olden but golden

14 May 2016

9:00 AM

14 May 2016

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2947 you were asked to submit a poem in praise of old age.

Old age gets a bad rap. Only the other week, in these pages, Stewart Dakers questioned our obsession with chasing longevity given the decrepitude and indignities of that final furlong. Here was your chance to put the case for the defence.

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