Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON HIS PITIABLE TRANSFORMATION, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


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First Line: I who was young so long
Last Line: I who was young so long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Aging; Youth


I WHO was young so long,
Young and alert and gay,
Now that my hair is grey,
Begin to change my song.

Now I know right from wrong,
Now I know pay and pray,
I who was young so long,
Young and alert and gay.

Now I follow the throng,
Walk in the beaten way,
Hear what the elders say,
And own that I was wrong --
I who was young so long.





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