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CANTILENA by THOMAS WALSH

First Line: SPRING IN YOUNG HEARTS SETS TENDERNESS
Last Line: FROM OLD HEARTS, MEMORIES.
Subject(s): HEARTS; OLD AGE; YOUTH;
SPRING in young hearts sets tenderness,
In old hearts, memories;
And who shall say what boon is less,—
Or happier who of these?—
With the glint, and song, and flower among
The nests of love and laughter,—
Or with sigh, and scent of heart-blooms spent,
And the haunting beauty after?—
Spring from young hearts reaps tenderness,
From old hearts, memories.



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