WOULD you be young again? So would not I -- One tear to memory giv'n, Onward I'd hie. Life's dark flood forded o'er, All but at rest on shore, Say, would you plunge once more, With home so nigh? If you might, would you now Retrace your way? Wander through thorny wilds, Faint and astray? Night's gloomy watches fled, Morning all beaming red, Hope's smiles around us shed, Heavenward -- away. Where are they gone, of yore My best delight? Dear and more dear, tho' now Hidden from sight. Where they rejoice to be, There is the land for me; Fly time -- fly speedily, Come life and light. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GREEN SYMPHONY by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by ALFRED TENNYSON KEEPING ENDLESS HOLIDAY by TITUS PETRONIUS NIGER A SONNET. LOVE'S CONTRARIETY by PHILIP AYRES THE OUTLAW'S SONG by JOANNA BAILLIE |