Youth (Maximo D. Ramos)

These have known the tingling freshness
Of the coming forth from God;
The sweetness of mother's breast
The ringing sinewiness of growth,
The feel of the loved one's cheek, the song    
Of April suns and showers...

And these will know
The quiet dimming down of age
And the silent wonder
of going back
to God.


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