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 | Miami Woods : a golden wedding and other poems |  |
Beautiful, beautiful Youth!—Freshness is youth,
And truthfulness is youth, and innocence:
And faith, and love, and joyousness are youth:
Whatever undistorted stands, and wears
The impress and the glow with which at first
It came from God, is panoplied in youth.
It gathers not the dust of time—it takes
No tarnish from the earth—but walks abroad
Effulgent with the glory of its Source,
And trailing robes of beauty evermore.
And truthfulness is youth, and innocence:
And faith, and love, and joyousness are youth:
Whatever undistorted stands, and wears
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It came from God, is panoplied in youth.
It gathers not the dust of time—it takes
No tarnish from the earth—but walks abroad
Effulgent with the glory of its Source,
And trailing robes of beauty evermore.
| Miami Woods : a golden wedding and other poems | |