The Shadow Line

One goes on recognizing the landmarks of the predecessors, excited, amused, taking the hard luck and the good luck together--the kicks and the halfpence, as the saying is--the picturesque common lot that holds so many possibilities. For the deserving or perhaps for the lucky. Yes, One goes on. And the time, too, goes on till one perceives ahead a shadow-line warning one that the region of early youth, too, must be left behind.