Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
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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.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
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Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

It takes a long time to become young.

It takes a long time to become young.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.