Poems

A New Edition

Power of Youth

Extract from ‘The Youth of Man’

Matthew Arnold

    AND they remember
With piercing untold anguish
The proud boasting of their youth.
    And they feel how Nature was fair.
And the mists of delusion,
And the scales of habit,
Fall away from their eyes.

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