<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Love's Youth</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">WHEN hair of gold</p><p class="line">Turns hair of grey;</p><p class="line">When joys grow cold</p><p class="line">And fade away;</p><p class="line">Then Loves grow old,</p><p class="line">And Loves decay.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Nay, there you miss</p><p class="line">Love's meaning high:</p><p class="line">Love is nor kiss</p><p class="line">Nor lover's sigh</p><p class="line">But inmost Bliss</p><p class="line">That cannot die.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">It is a lark!</p><p class="line">On soaring wings,</p><p class="line">Or day or dark</p><p class="line">It ever sings</p><p class="line">--O mortals hark!--</p><p class="line">Immortal things.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">It is the blood</p><p class="line">r the Heart of God:</p><p class="line">It brings the bud</p><p class="line">To Aaron's rod;</p><p class="line">And stirs the mud,</p><p class="line">And stings the clod.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">With songs unsung,</p><p class="line">And tales untold,</p><p class="line">With seeds unflung,</p><p class="line">And buds unrolled,</p><p class="line">Love will be young</p><p class="line">Till God is old!</p></div></body></html> · Great War