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Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - My Lost Youth
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – from The Poems of Longfellow [printed about 1875]
from My Lost Youth
I remember the gleams and glooms that dart
Across the schoolboy's brain
The song and the silence in the heart
That in part are prophecies, and in part
Are longings wild and vain
And the voice of that fitful song
Sings on, and is never still
'A boy's will is the wind's will
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts