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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 23, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 63.

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Youth and Age

By B. R. Morse

YOUTH hurries on with vision cast Far down the future's vista fair; Age sits and muses on the past, And lives again the days that were.
Youth talks of what new years contain, And longs their secrets sweet to know; Age tells it o'er and o'er again— Dear story of the long ago.
Youth dreams of joy in coming years, And slights the sweetness of today; Age views the happy past through tears, And sighs for life's fair, early way.
How doubly blest the young who know The blessedness of living now, And still rejoice, when long years throw Their threads of silver o'er the brow!
Who early learn the priceless truth That narrow now is joy's sole range, And scant in age or flush in youth, Rejoice in God through time and change!
— B. R. Morse, in Christian Herald.