Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE, YOUTH, SONG, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN


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LOVE, YOUTH, SONG, by                    
First Line: It was a song of lustihood
Last Line: When love and youth and song were one!
Subject(s): Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


IT was a song of lustihood
I sang in youth,
My happy Maytime,
As hand in hand she with me stood,
As true as truth
Through Love's own playtime;
The world and we in lustihood.

How young she was! How she was fair,
With voice as sweet
As any starling!
I close my eyes and see her there,
The song repeat:
Ah, she was darling,
And life was love, and youth was fair!

We parted, as we met, with smiles;
She that was mine
Has not forgotten;
But oh, how many weary miles
Of days a-line
Has Time begotten
Since Youth and Love first met with smiles!

Now in the lives where Spring once shone
Sown is the seed
Of branching sorrow,
And gray my locks, the sun has gone.
How small the need
Of Life to sorrow
When Love and Youth and Song were one!





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