The youth should be normal with laughter and song; Both carefree and happy, if youth would be strong. But youth should be guided that work may be gain; And taught to think twice ere inflicting a pain. Youth comes but once to each soul while on earth; So youth should learn things of superior worth. Old age comes to all who outlive their full prime; And thoughts that they sow come to harvest in time. Emotions write autographs on the old face, A book of memoirs that they cannot misplace. And no book can equal the age-mellowed mind Whose triumphs were never too great to be kind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BENCH OF BOORS by HERMAN MELVILLE IRELAND; A SEASIDE PORTRAIT by JOHN JAMES PIATT TO THE WINDS by BERNARD BARTON ESCAPE by JACQUES GEORGES CLEMENCEAU LE CLERQ HER UNBELIEF by ABRAHAM COWLEY LINES TO CONTENTMENT by GEORGE D. CRAIG |