“A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
The Fountain, st. ?? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 99.
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Variant: Happy who in his verse can gently steer
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