The Poetical Works of George Barlow In Ten [Eleven] Volumes |
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IV. AUTUMN WAILINGS
When youth is gone, and love is gone,
What lights the woodland way?
October's sunset, chill and wan;
The light of Autumn grey.
When youth is gone, and love is fled,
For us the world might well be dead!
What lights the woodland way?
October's sunset, chill and wan;
The light of Autumn grey.
When youth is gone, and love is fled,
For us the world might well be dead!
When youth is gone,—as dead leaves go
Along the autumnal blast,—
Then first ourselves we seem to know
What all shall know at last;
The autumn weariness of life,
Past love and labour, zeal and strife.
Along the autumnal blast,—
Then first ourselves we seem to know
What all shall know at last;
The autumn weariness of life,
Past love and labour, zeal and strife.
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When love is gone,—as blossoms fade,
Fade swiftly one by one,—
Our tired hearts tremble, as cold shade
Replaces summer sun.
When youth and love alike are fled,
The brain lives on, the heart is dead.
Fade swiftly one by one,—
Our tired hearts tremble, as cold shade
Replaces summer sun.
When youth and love alike are fled,
The brain lives on, the heart is dead.
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