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Young people need models, not critics
Young people need models, not critics
Youth comes but once in a lifetime
Youth comes but once in a lifetime
Life went a-Maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;
When I was young!
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Life went a-Maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;
When I was young!
When I was young?--Ah, woful when!
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
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Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
