Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EARLY THOUGHTS, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY


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EARLY THOUGHTS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh gather the thoughts of your early years
Last Line: The thoughts that we thought when young.


OH gather the thoughts of your early years,
Gather them as they flow,
For all unmarked in those thoughts appears
The path where you soon must go.

Full many a dream will wither away,
And Springtide hues are brief,
But the lines are there of the autumn day,
Like the skeleton in the leaf.

The husbandman knows not the worth of his seed
Until the flower be sprung,
And only in age can we rightly read
The thoughts that we thought when young.





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