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YOUTH: PREPARING FOR LIFE

“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!

Aladdin’s Lamp, and Fortunatus’ Purse!

That holds the treasures of the universe!

All possibilities are in its hands,