EQUATION.
When we grow old, and time looks like a thief,That was the spendthrift of our dearest days;When color mingles merged in silvered grays;When joys are ever memoried to be brief;When beauty fades; when hope is under feof;When all our moods are mantled in a haze;When sprightly pleasure for a penance playsThe part of prudence in the weeds of grief;It will suffice if unto memoryVisit the voices and the eager graceOf days that promised never to forget;If they will flow like rumors of the sea,Heard under honied lindens in the place,Where start the marguerite and the mignonette.
When we grow old, and time looks like a thief,That was the spendthrift of our dearest days;When color mingles merged in silvered grays;When joys are ever memoried to be brief;When beauty fades; when hope is under feof;When all our moods are mantled in a haze;When sprightly pleasure for a penance playsThe part of prudence in the weeds of grief;It will suffice if unto memoryVisit the voices and the eager graceOf days that promised never to forget;If they will flow like rumors of the sea,Heard under honied lindens in the place,Where start the marguerite and the mignonette.
When we grow old, and time looks like a thief,That was the spendthrift of our dearest days;When color mingles merged in silvered grays;When joys are ever memoried to be brief;When beauty fades; when hope is under feof;When all our moods are mantled in a haze;When sprightly pleasure for a penance playsThe part of prudence in the weeds of grief;It will suffice if unto memoryVisit the voices and the eager graceOf days that promised never to forget;If they will flow like rumors of the sea,Heard under honied lindens in the place,Where start the marguerite and the mignonette.
When we grow old, and time looks like a thief,
That was the spendthrift of our dearest days;
When color mingles merged in silvered grays;
When joys are ever memoried to be brief;
When beauty fades; when hope is under feof;
When all our moods are mantled in a haze;
When sprightly pleasure for a penance plays
The part of prudence in the weeds of grief;
It will suffice if unto memory
Visit the voices and the eager grace
Of days that promised never to forget;
If they will flow like rumors of the sea,
Heard under honied lindens in the place,
Where start the marguerite and the mignonette.