<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118410" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Youth and Age</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dance on, dance on, we see, we see<br>Youth goes, alack, and with it glee,<br>A boy the old man ne'er can be;<br>Maternal thirty scarce can find<br>The sweet sixteen long left behind;<br>Old folks must toil, and scrape, and strain,<br>That boys and girls may once again<br>Be that for them they cannot be,<br>But which it gives them joy to see,<br>Youth goes and glee; but not in vain<br>Young folks if only you remain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dance on, dance on, 'tis joy to see;<br>The dry red leaves on winter's tree,<br>Can feel the new sap rising free.<br>On, on, young folks; so you survive,<br>The dead themselves are still alive;<br>The blood in dull parental veins<br>Long numbed, a tingling life regains.<br>Deep down in earth, the tough old root<br>Is conscious still of flower and fruit.<br>Spring goes and glee but were not vain:<br>In you, young folks, they come again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dance on, dance on, we see, we feel;<br>Wind, wind your waltzes, wind and wheel,<br>Our senses too with music reel;<br>Nor let your pairs neglect to fill<br>The old ancestral scorned quadrille.<br>Let hand the hand uplifted seek,<br>And pleasure fly from cheek to cheek;<br>Love too; but gently, nor astray,<br>And yet, deluder, yet in play.<br>Dance on; youth goes: but all's not vain,<br>Young folks, if only you remain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dance on, dance on, 'tis joy to see;<br>We once were nimble e'en as ye,<br>And danced to give the oldest glee;<br>O wherefore add, as we, you too,<br>Once gone your prime cannot renew;<br>You too, like us, at last shall stand<br>To watch and not to join the band,<br>Content some day (a far-off day)<br>To your supplanters soft to say,<br>Youth goes, but goes not all in vain,<br>Young folks, so only you remain,<br>Dance on, dance on, 'tis joy to see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118410" data-title="Youth and Age de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="Dance on, dance on, we see, we see/Youth goes, alack, and with it glee,/A boy the old man ne'er can be;/Maternal thirty scarce can find/The sweet sixteen long left behind;/Old folks must toil, and scrape, and strain,/That boys and girls may once a..."></div> </div> </div>

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