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And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy because
We have been glad of yore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
But an old age serene and bright,
And lovely as a Lapland night,
Shall lead thee to thy grave.
A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Delivered from the galling yoke of time.
Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind.
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares,and delicate fears;
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;
And love, and thought, and joy.
Hail to thee, far above the rest
In joy of voice and pinion!
Thou, linnet! in thy green array,
Presiding spirit here to-day,
Dost lead the revels of the May;
And this is thy dominion.
Thus fares it still in our decay,
And yet the wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.
The monumental pomp of age
Was with this goodly personage;
A stature undepressed in size,
Unbent, which rather seemed to rise
In open victory o'er the weight
Of seventy years, to loftier height.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill
On the top of the bare hill;
The Ploughboy is whooping—anon—anon!
There's joy in the mountains:
There's life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing,
Blue sky prevailing;
The rain is over and gone.