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With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas,We sailed for the Hesperides,The land where golden apples grow;But that, ah! that was long ago.How far, since th...more

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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

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There was an old belief that in the embersOf all things their primordial form exists, And cunning alchemistsCould re-create the rose with all its memb...more

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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisi...more

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It is too late! Ah, nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.Cato learned Greek at eighty; SophoclesWrote his grand Oedipus, a...more

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Sadly as some old mediaeval knightGazed at the arms he could no longer wield,The sword two-handed and the shining shieldSuspended in the hall, and ful...more

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A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.