For while a youth is lost in soaring thought,
And while a maid grows sweet and beautiful,
And while a spring-tide coming lights the earth,
And while a child, and while a flower is born,
And while one wrong cries for redress and finds
A soul to answer, still the world is young!
THE END.
Footnotes:
[1] Euripides, "Hippolytus," lines 70-78.
[2] Virgil, "Æneid," vi. 740.
[3] See the Orphic Hymns.
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Transcriber's Notes:
This text is hemistichia, in that the end of one stanza
is vertically aligned with the start of the next stanza.
The original font, possibly Caslon Old Face is similar
to Goudy Old Style and the text in this file has been
aligned for reading using Goudy Old style or a similar font.
Inconsistent Hyphenation and text retained.
Pg 168: (Sovereign Here) changed to (Sovereign Heré)