<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548266" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Childhood Alone Is Glad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Childhood alone is glad. With it time flees<br>In constant mimes and bright festivities.<br>It, like the ever-restless butterfly,<br>Or seeks or settles on some flower of joy.<br>Youth chases pleasure, but oft starteth pain;<br>And love, youth's birthright, oft is love in vain;<br>While manhood follows wealth, or woos ambition,<br>That are but courted cares; and, with transition<br>Insensible, he enters upon age;<br>Thence gilding like a spectre from life's stage,<br>E'en through the door of dotage. So he passes<br>To second childhood; but, as quickening gases,<br>Being fled, leave zestless a once cheering draught,<br>We grow not merry though the dotard laughed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Heavysege">Charles Heavysege</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=548266" data-title="Childhood Alone Is Glad de Charles Heavysege" data-description="Childhood alone is glad. With it time flees In constant mimes and bright festivities. It, like the ever-restless butterfly, Or seeks or settles on some flower of joy. Youth chases pleasure, but oft starteth pain; And love, youth's birthright, oft ..."></div> </div> </div>

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