The Two Lives (1908)

The Two Lives written by William Henry Davies

Nature Poems (1908)

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Youth thinks green apples sweet,
   Age thinks red cherries sour;
Age calls a flower a weed,
   Youth calls a weed a flower.

Youth thinks the world is large,
   But Age doth think it small;
Youth walks on stilts, but Age
   Fears, on his feet, to fall.

Youth claims eternal life,
   With hours too long to sum;
Age counts his few hours gone,
   And fewer hours to come.

Age sits and feebly chirps,
   But Youth does dance and sing;
Age is Time's pensioner,
   Youth is Time's king; his king!

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