Just write

William Wordsworth was 28 and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 26 when Lyrical Ballads, with a few other Poems was published in 1798.  It may be true that it is never too late to try but I'm already older than their years combined.

Ice on Ben Arthur, 1971

Bring back the way we might have been
with our half-remembered brightness
like those eager men the world had not yet seen

restless in pursuit, not of their greatness
but of truths that they or we or any mountaineer
might look for in the glint of winter's sun

skating on the frosted summit's skin
above us; out of reach and yet so near
we dare not cease until the climb is done.