YOUTH,
large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace, force, fascination,
Do
you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace,
force,
fascination?
Day full-blown and splendid—day of
the immense sun, action,
ambition, laughter,
The Night follows close with millions
of suns, and sleep and
restoring darkness.
Walt Whitman 1881
