Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
These laid the world away: poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene
That men call age, and those who would have been
Their sons, they gave their immortality.
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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.
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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A young Apollo, golden haired,
Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
Magnificently unprepared
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Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
Magnificently unprepared
For the long littleness of life.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
