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YOUTH AND LOVE by AMY LEVY

First Line: WHAT DOES YOUTH KNOW OF LOVE?
Last Line: IT IS NOT YOUTH WHO KNOWS.
Subject(s): LOVE - NATURE OF; YOUTH;

WHAT does youth know of love ?
Little enough, I trow !
He plucks the myrtle for his brow,
For his forehead the rose.
Nay, but of love
It is not youth who knows.







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