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by Unknown

I would be young again—

Youth’s madding bliss and bane

I would recapture—

Though it were keen with pain,

All else seems void and vain

To that fine rapture.

I would be glad once more—

Slip through an open door

Into Life’s glory—

Keep what I spent of yore,