![]() The faults to which the young are ever prone; The will is quick to act, the judgment weak. |
![]() On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray, On the leaping waters and gay young isles; Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away. |
![]() When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf, And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death. |
![]() Too bright, too beautiful to last. |
![]() The mild, the fierce, the stony face; Some bright with thoughtless smiles, and some Where secret tears have left their trace. |
![]() But midst the gorgeous blooms of May, I passed thee on thy humble stalk. |
![]() The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak. |
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![]() Yet lovely in thy youthful grace! The elder dames, thy haughty peers, Admire and hate thy blooming years. |
![]() The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, And fresh as the young earth, ere man had sinned -- |
![]() Races of living things, glorious in strength, And perish, as the quickening breath of God Fills them, or is withdrawn. |
![]() The thronging years in glory rise. And, as they fleet, Drop strength and riches at thy feet. |
![]() The disembodied spirits of the dead, When all of thee that time could wither sleeps And perishes among the dust we tread? |
![]() Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race? |