 | The poetical works of Samuel Woodworth |  |
SPRING AND AUTUMN.
How pleasing, how lovely appears
Sweet infancy, sportive and gay;
Its prattle, its smiles, and its tears,
Like spring, or the dawning of day!
Sweet infancy, sportive and gay;
Its prattle, its smiles, and its tears,
Like spring, or the dawning of day!
But manhood 's the season designed
For wisdom, for works, and for use;
To ripen the fruits of the mind,
Which the seeds sown in childhood produce.
For wisdom, for works, and for use;
To ripen the fruits of the mind,
Which the seeds sown in childhood produce.
| The poetical works of Samuel Woodworth | |