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A note from Dr. Hendrix
This is my small tribute to Shakespeare’s seven ages of man — and how the reluctant schoolboy “creeping unwillingly to school” looks exactly the same four centuries on. I wrote it because the greatest writing does not age; it just keeps quietly describing us, generation after generation.
— Dr. Roger Hendrix · We share these stories so you can know the family behind GreenTeaHP.
“. . . One man in his time plays many parts.”
From birth to death,
he efficiently imparts
In fourteen crisply written
lines the seven phases of man’s life.
About the phase of being a young boy
he writes:
“. . . the school boy,
with his satchel, and shining morning face, creeping like
Snail, unwillingly to school.”
Four centuries later the scene clearly
repeats itself,
as the same young boy
with shining morning face passes by my
home on his way to school
with backpack, instead of satchel in hand.
Will it forever be so?
He wrote it, and thus seems
to have made it so.