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Alfred Austin - A Farewell To Youth
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Ere that I say farewell to youth, and take
 The homely road that leads to life`s decline,
 Let me be sure again I shall not pine
 To taste the bliss you bid me to forsake:
 That Spring`s returning raptures will not wake
 Too late repentance for abjuring mine,
 Nor the old sweets I pledge me to resign
 Behind them leave the bitterness of ache.
 Yet is there nothing of one`s generous prime
 To bear me kindred company to the end,
 Some passionate longing, some belief sublime,
 Some wrong to right, some failure to befriend?
 Leave me but these, I care not where I wend,
 But down life`s slope go hand—in—hand with Time.
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