Virginibus Puerisque...
Alan Seeger
1888 to 1916
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I care not that one listen if he lives
aught but life's romance, nor puts above
All life's the need to love,
Nor counts his greatest wealth Beauty gives.
But sometime on an afternoon in spring,
dandelions dot the fields with gold,
And under rustling a few weeks old
'Tis sweet to stroll and the bluebirds sing,
Do you, blond head, whom beauty the power
Of being young and winsome have prepared
life's last privilege that really pays,
Make the companion an idle hour
These relics of the time when too fared
Across the sweet fifth lustrum of my days.