finding a Solzhenitsyn poem

[Marc Adler]

Not quite sure if you're quoting the poem, but you might check out:

http://www.lib.ru/PROZA/SOLZHENICYN/

Marc

Marilyn Sizer(e)k dio:
> A friend wants help finding the text of the Solzhenitsyn poem "Growing Old' in Russian.
> Where might we find it?
> 
> How much easier it is then, how much more receptive we are to death, when
> advancing years guide us softly to our end. Aging thus is in no sense a
> 
> punishment from on high, but brings its own blessings and a warmth of
> colors all its own. . . . There is even warmth to be drawn from the waning
> of your own strength compared with the past-just to think how sturdy I once
> used to be! You can no longer get through a whole day's work at a stretch,
> but how good it is to slip into the brief oblivion of sleep, and what a
> gift to wake once more to the clarity of your second or third morning of
> the day. And your spirit can find delight in limiting your intake of food,
> in abandoning the pursuit of novel flavors. You are still of this life, yet
> you are rising above the material plane. . . . Growing old serenely is not
> a downhill path but an ascent.
> 
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Marc Adler
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Gauzak ez dira multzutu eta berretu
behar, mengoarik eta premiarik gabe.

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