~

Another year. But I know, as long as you're with me, as long as we can laugh with each other, as long as we won't allow the years to rob us of our humor, we will be happy. As how we were when we were younger. And we know that as long as we remember all the little things we did that brought us together - the happpy, the sad, the mad, the bitter - we will remain tied together by tiny heart-strings that can connect us beyond geographical boundaries. And we will never grow old. To my friends here and abroad, my officemates who are now my family and to my princess Leah.

--

Never Come The Day That Sees Us Old


Love, let us live as we have lived, nor lose
The little names that were the first night's grace,
And never come the day that sees us old,
I'm still your lad, and you my little lass.
Let me be older than old Nestor's years,
And you the Sibyl, if we heed it not.
What should we know, we two, of ripe old age?
We'll have its richness, and the years forgot.


Ausonius - To My Wife, tr. by Waddell

--