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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SONG OF YOUTH, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poet's Biography
First Line: O world, they say you are old, you are old
Last Line: For I, I am young—I would know, I would know!
Subject(s): Youth
First Line: O world, they say you are old, you are old
Last Line: For I, I am young—I would know, I would know!
Subject(s): Youth
O WORLD, they say you are old, you are old—
But my eyes are young, they are young to see!
And Life, they say, is a tale that is told—
But, Life, I listen—tell me! tell me!
Ah, yes, I am eager of eye and ear!
I would see, O world—O Life, I would hear!
They say that Hope is a false beacon light
Set over the sunken rock, Despair—
That good ships go aground in the night,
By its lying, beckoning light lured there!
But, Hope, I believe that your light shines true—
I will set my galleon's course by you!
And Beauty, they say, is a siren cold
Whose lovers die and she does not care—
But bend to me, Beauty, my heart is bold!
Death does not daunt me, I dare, I dare!
Though your name be bandied on every tongue,
Still—smile on me, Beauty, for I am young!
Love, they declare, is a bird on the wing!
Catch it, they say—and its talons tear!
Cage it and make it a prisoned thing—
And it droops and dies in its prison there!
But, Love, when you pass me—fly low, fly low!
For I, I am young—I would know, I would know!
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