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EHEU FUGACES, by                    
First Line: When I was five-and-twenty
Last Line: To the sweet of seventeen!
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


When I was five-and-twenty
And you were seventeen
The gods gave luck a-plenty
All through your sweet-and-twenty
Lasted the far niente --
Heigho! the days we've seen!

The days of five-and-twenty,
The sweet of seventeen,
How swift! Fugit repente
The span of five-and-twenty
Time cries: "Festina lente!
Cherish what joy has been!"

Sped is twice five-and-twenty,
Vanished your seventeen,
Yet memories a-plenty
Stay with such cognoscenti
As you and I -- how spent we
The pallid years between. . . .

A health to the years of twenty!
To the sweet of seventeen!





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