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Matthew Arnold - Youth`s Agitations
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When I shall be divorced, some ten years hence,
From this poor present self which I am now;
When youth has done its tedious vain expense
Of passions that for ever ebb and flow;

Shall I not joy  youth`s heats  are left behind, 
And breathe more happy in an even clime ?-- 
Ah no, for then I shall begin to find
A thousand virtues in this hated time!

Then I shall wish its agitations back,
And all its thwarting currents of desire; 
Then I shall praise the heat which then I lack,
And call this hurrying fever,  generous fire; 

And sigh that one thing only has been lent
To youth and age in common--discontent.
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