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Oh! Youth is firmly bound to earth, When hope beams on each comrade’s glance: His bosom-chords are tuned to mirth, Like harp-strings in the cheerful dance; But Age has felt those ties unbound, Which fixed him to that spot of ground Where all his household comforts lay; He feels his freezing heart grow cold, He thinks of kindred in the mould, And cries, amid his grief untold, “I would not live alway.”
Oh! Youth is firmly bound to earth, When hope beams on each comrade’s glance: His bosom-chords are tuned to mirth, Like harp-strings in the cheerful dance; But Age has felt those ties unbound, Which fixed him to that spot of ground Where all his household comforts lay; He feels his freezing heart grow cold, He thinks of kindred in the mould, And cries, amid his grief untold, “I would not live alway.”
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- William Knox
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
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