“Glorious and beautiful
Were youth's feeling and youth's thought—
Would that we did not annul
All that in us then was wrought!
Would their influence could remain
When the hope and dream depart;
Would we might through life retain
Still some youth within the heart!”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(11th August 1832) Youth
The London Literary Gazette, 1832

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