Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOUTH, by EDWIN GARNET RILEY


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YOUTH, by                    
First Line: I'll not grow old in spite of years
Last Line: Shall love and laugh and still be gay.
Subject(s): Youth


I'll not grow old in spite of years,
In spite of toil and grief and tears;
Something of youth shall yet remain
To garner up life's golden grain.

I'll not grow old though over all
My splendid dreams, the shadows fall;
I'll build new castles in the air
With which those dreams but ill compare.

I'll not grow old though bent in form
And gnarled by angry wind and storm;
My soul untouched by time's decay,
Shall love and laugh and still be gay.





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