Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Morituri Salutamus" (1875)
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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!
— Maiden
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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!" in the context of "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Morituri Salutamus" (1875)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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A maiden or maid is a female virgin or, more broadly, merely an unmarried young woman or girl. Related terms include damsel and wench.
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