Youth

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Title:     Youth
Author: Helen Hay Whitney [More Titles by Whitney]

Youth and its pensive agonies! How soon
The restless heart forgets to crave the moon!
Age is too weary for the butterflies--
Spring's rainbow radiance fluttering through sweet skies,
Hope merrily deferred. We see the morn,
We who are old, in shattered fragments. Scorn
For laughter and for singing clouds our breast.
Youth, take your fill of pleasure, for the rest
Of Age is endless. Sing, nor grudge the song--
Youth is so short, and Age, quiet Age, so long!

[The end]
Helen Hay Whitney's poem: Youth

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