THE SUNSET OF YOUTH.
The eun sinks down beneath the sea, I 'Tis summer's latest day, The clouds still cherish lovingly Ilia last departing ray. Summer has faded from his eyes, And autumn has begun, And he who will to-morrow rise Will be another sun. So dies the youth's entrancing dream, Scarce finds he in his soul A trace of that old magic gleam That once illumed the whole. The man is wiser than tho youth, But is he happier, too ? The man has found how rare is truth, The youth holds all for true. Groat is the price that wisdom pays Old errors to efface ; We lose the charm of vanished days, What have we in their place 1
—'•A Stoiiy of Three Years," AND other Poems. By J, Williams.
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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 49, 10 May 1884, Page 5
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131THE SUNSET OF YOUTH. Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 49, 10 May 1884, Page 5
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