C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Boyhood

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

Byron.

Ye tiny elves, that guiltless sport,
Like linnets in the bush,
Ye little know the ill ye court,
When manhood is your wish!
The losses, the crosses,
That active men engage;
The fears all, the tears all,
Of dim declining age.

Burns.

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