Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CANTILENA, by THOMAS WALSH


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CANTILENA, by                    
First Line: Spring in young hearts sets tenderness
Last Line: From old hearts, memories.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Hearts; Old Age; Youth


SPRING in young hearts sets tenderness,
In old hearts, memories;
And who shall say what boon is less,—
Or happier who of these?—
With the glint, and song, and flower among
The nests of love and laughter,—
Or with sigh, and scent of heart-blooms spent,
And the haunting beauty after?—
Spring from young hearts reaps tenderness,
From old hearts, memories.





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