<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529232" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>River of Life, The</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The more we live, more brief appear<br>Our life's succeeding stages; <br>A day to childhood seems a year, <br>And years like passing ages.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gladsome current of our youth, <br>Ere passion yet disorders, <br>Steals lingering like a river smooth <br>Along its grassy borders.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But as the careworn cheek grows wan, <br>And sorrow's shafts fly thicker, <br>Ye stars, that measure life to man, <br>Why seem your courses quicker? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When joys have lost their bloom and breath, <br>And life itself is vapid, <br>Why, as we reach the Falls of Death <br>Feel we its tide more rapid?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It may be strange—yet who would change <br>Time's course to slower speeding,<br>When one by one our friends have gone, <br>And left our bosoms bleeding?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heaven gives our years of fading strength <br>Indemnifying fleetness; <br>And those of youth, a seeming length, <br>Proportion'd to their sweetness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Campbell">Thomas Campbell</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=529232" data-title="River of Life, The de Thomas Campbell" data-description="The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorders, Steals lingering like a river smooth Along its gras..."></div> </div> </div>

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