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TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 17. REGENERATING THOUGHT, by                    
First Line: The thought of youth it is that shall remake
Last Line: And age, if there be age, shall come indeed.
Subject(s): Youth


The thought of youth it is that shall remake
The old world into one of youth again,
And in that thought all care we shall forsake
And age and such things ne'er will burden men.
For youth is but the springtime of our life,
When hills are green and skies are clear and blue,
And age to man seems naught but care and strife,
With lowering clouds which hide the sun from view.

And when those thoughts possess and cheer the heart,
There'll be no age, for youth will be supreme,
And all will be just springtime's counterpart,
And God's own sun of happiness will gleam.
The world itself is countless ages old,
And still is young, for aeons yet shall speed
Ere it shall die and all its days be told,
And age, if there be age, shall come indeed.





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