Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CRY OF YOUTH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP


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THE CRY OF YOUTH, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard youth crying in the night
Last Line: "yea, I am youth because I die!"
Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Youth; Dead, The


I HEARD Youth crying in the night:
"Gone is my former world-delight;
For there is naught my feet may stay;
The morn suffuses into day,
It dare not stand a moment still
But must the world with light fulfil.
More evanescent than the rose,
My sudden rainbow comes and goes
Plunging bright ends across the sky—
Yea, I am Youth because I die!"




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