<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37665" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Youth and Calm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis death! and peace, indeed, is here,<br>And ease from shame, and rest from fear.<br>There's nothing can dismarble now<br>The smoothness of that limpid brow.<br>But is a calm like this, in truth,<br>The crowning end of life and youth,<br>And when this boon rewards the dead,<br>Are all debts paid, has all been said?<br>And is the heart of youth so light,<br>Its step so firm, its eye so bright,<br>Because on its hot brow there blows<br>A wind of promise and repose<br>From the far grave, to which it goes;<br>Because it hath the hope to come,<br>One day, to harbour in the tomb?<br>Ah no, the bliss youth dreams is one<br>For daylight, for the cheerful sun,<br>For feeling nerves and living breath -<br>Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.<br>It dreams a rest, if not more deep,<br>More grateful than this marble sleep;<br>It hears a voice within it tell:<br>Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.<br>'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,<br>But 'tis not what our youth desires.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</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=37665" data-title="Youth and Calm de Matthew Arnold" data-description="'Tis death! and peace, indeed, is here,/And ease from shame, and rest from fear./There's nothing can dismarble now/The smoothness of that limpid brow./But is a calm like this, in truth,/The crowning end of life and youth,/And when this boon reward..."></div> </div> </div>

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