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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUTOGRAPH OF YOUTH, by MARTHA C. COCHRAN
First Line: The youth should be normal with laughter and song
Last Line: Whose triumphs were never too great to be kind.
Subject(s): Youth
First Line: The youth should be normal with laughter and song
Last Line: Whose triumphs were never too great to be kind.
Subject(s): Youth
The youth should be normal with laughter and song;
Both carefree and happy, if youth would be strong.
But youth should be guided that work may be gain;
And taught to think twice ere inflicting a pain.
Youth comes but once to each soul while on earth;
So youth should learn things of superior worth.
Old age comes to all who outlive their full prime;
And thoughts that they sow come to harvest in time.
Emotions write autographs on the old face,
A book of memoirs that they cannot misplace.
And no book can equal the age-mellowed mind
Whose triumphs were never too great to be kind.
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