Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Youth
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“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”
“Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!”
“In its sublime audacity of faith, "Be thou removed!" it to the mountain saith, And with ambitious feet, secure and proud, Ascends the ladder leaning on the cloud!”
“How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!”