#let poem(content) = { set par(first-line-indent: 0em) align(center, block[ #set align(left) #set block(breakable: false) #content ]) } #poem[ #block[ “You are old, Father William,” the young man said, \ #h(1em)“And your hair has become very white; \ And yet you incessantly stand on your head--- \ #h(1em)Do you think, at your age, it is right?” ] #block[ “In my youth,” Father William replied to his son, \ #h(1em)“I feared it might injure the brain; \ But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, \ #h(1em)Why, I do it again and again.” ] #block[ “You are old,” said the youth, “as I mentioned before, \ #h(1em)And have grown most uncommonly fat; \ Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--- \ #h(1em)Pray, what is the reason of that?” ] #block[ “In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, \ #h(1em)“I kept all my limbs very supple \ By the use of this ointment---one shilling the box--- \ #h(1em)Allow me to sell you a couple?” ] #block[ “You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak \ #h(1em)For anything tougher than suet; \ Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--- \ #h(1em)Pray, how did you manage to do it?” ] #block[ “In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law, \ #h(1em)And argued each case with my wife; \ And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, \ #h(1em)Has lasted the rest of my life.” ] #block[ “You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose \ #h(1em)That your eye was as steady as ever; \ Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--- \ #h(1em)What made you so awfully clever?” ] #block[ “I have answered three questions, and that is enough,” \ #h(1em)Said his father; “don't give yourself airs! \ Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? \ #h(1em)Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!” ] ]