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WHEN ONE IS YOUNG, by                    
First Line: When one is young what matters care?
Last Line: When one is young.
Subject(s): Old Age; Youth


When one is young what matters care?
For youth has mirth and joy to spare.
The future is a blazing fire
That lights the pathway of desire,
And doing 's but a name for dare.

What smiling masks the grim fates wear,
How amiable and debonair!
The best seems easy to acquire
When one is young.

Youth is a multimillionaire
Who fattens on the best of fare;
Whom all delights and naught can tire;
Who treats the world as his empire.
But old age sets its fatal snare
When one is young.





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