BIRTHDAY

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1. Do you count your birthdays thankfully?—HORACE, Epistles
   

2. A birthday—and now a day that rose
   With much of hope, with meaning rife—
   A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
   The middle day of human life.—JEAN INGELOW, A Birthday Walk
   

3. And show me your nest with the young ones in it,
   I will not steal them away;
   I am old! you may trust me, linnet, linnet—
   I am seven times one today.—JEAN INGELOW, Songs of Seven
   

4. The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life

5. My birthday!—what a different sound
   That word had in my youthful ears;
   And how each time the day comes round,
   Less and less white its mark appears.—THOMAS MOORE, My Birthday
   

6. Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear;
   'Tis but the funeral of the former year.—POPE, To Mrs. M. B.
   

7. This day I breathed first: time is come round;
   And where I did begin, there shall I end;
   My life is run his compass.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar