Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Poems of Home: IV. YouthThe Flight of Youth
Richard Henry Stoddard (18251903)T
There are balms for all our pain,
But when youth, the dream, departs,
It takes something from our hearts,
And it never comes again.
Under manhood’s sterner reign;
Still we feel that something sweet
Followed youth, with flying feet,
And will never come again.
And we sigh for it in vain;
We behold it everywhere,
On the earth, and in the air,
But it never comes again.