<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=563596" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Memories Of Lost Youth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was a young boy many decades ago<br>I thought babies like flowers in the gardens did grow<br>That's what I was told and what I did believe<br>Children have their innocence and are not hard to deceive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I yearn for the innocence that I had then<br>Something that I lost in the World of men<br>Lost innocence we cannot hope to regain<br>Though fond memories of childhood we always retain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was a young boy with joy I recall<br>The great tits young in the dark cavity in the stone wall<br>I did hear them chirp though them I could not see<br>The mysteries of Nature a wonder to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The winter was cold with frost wind rain and snow<br>And the river bank high in the old fields did flow<br>But Spring brought her birdsong her wildflowers and green<br>And Nature's great beauty for all to be seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My innocence died like the flowers of the Spring<br>But memories of lost youth a beautiful thing<br>The passing of time has left me looking gray<br>And a different World I live in today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=563596" data-title="Memories Of Lost Youth de Francis Duggan" data-description="When I was a young boy many decades ago I thought babies like flowers in the gardens did grow That's what I was told and what I did believe Children have their innocence and are not hard to deceive. I yearn for the innocence that I had then Somet..."></div> </div> </div>

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