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Visions of life these are wherein are seen
Types of the human, rounded differently
By age and clime and diverse circumstance.
Types of the human, rounded differently
By age and clime and diverse circumstance.
Childhood, when the child is as a flower
Of wilding growth, and when it is at one
With nature, fellow with the winds and birds.
Of wilding growth, and when it is at one
With nature, fellow with the winds and birds.
Youth, when adventure is the salt of life,
And all the passions hot, and when the years
Seem weary if not shifting with swift change.
And all the passions hot, and when the years
Seem weary if not shifting with swift change.
Manhood and Womanhood, together twined
In spirit, and with equal upward gaze:
Moving with love through toil-ennobled years,
And ever reaching unto higher things.
In spirit, and with equal upward gaze:
Moving with love through toil-ennobled years,
And ever reaching unto higher things.
And Old Age,—work and toil being past: and soft
The memories of sorrows: with the hope
That, after one dark hour, youth comes again!
The memories of sorrows: with the hope
That, after one dark hour, youth comes again!
Types of inheritors of that high life
Which is of all the possible heritage;
Types none the less tho' few there are who reach
The half-guessed affluence of their periods.
Which is of all the possible heritage;
Types none the less tho' few there are who reach
The half-guessed affluence of their periods.
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