Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: IV. Youth | | The Flight of Youth | | Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| | | THERE are gains for all our losses, | |
| There are balms for all our pain, | |
| But when youth, the dream, departs, | |
| It takes something from our hearts, | |
| And it never comes again. | 5 |
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| We are stronger, and are better, | |
| Under manhood’s sterner reign; | |
| Still we feel that something sweet | |
| Followed youth, with flying feet, | |
| And will never come again. | 10 |
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| Something beautiful is vanished, | |
| And we sigh for it in vain; | |
| We behold it everywhere, | |
| On the earth, and in the air, | |
| But it never comes again. | 15 |
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