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