No what I should really like to do right now in the full blaze of lights before this illustrious assembly is to shower every one of you with gifts with flowers with offerings of poetry - to be young once more to ride on the crest of the wave.
However I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Old age has its pleasures which though different are not less than the pleasures of youth.
