and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"
2. In the progression of physical life on earth, first there are the joys of childhood, the excitement and pleasure of youth; and afterwards there are the labor and strife, weakness, senility, and death.  This physical progression to that which is worse is among the saddest and most pitiful qualities of mortal life.  Wordsworth captured the full pathos of it thus: