There are gains for all our losses
There are balms for all our pain:
But when youth, the dream, departs
It takes something from our hearts.
We are stronger, and are better
Under manhood's sterner regin:
Still we feel that something sweet
Followed youth, with flying feet
And will never come again.
Something beautiful is vanished
And we sigh for it in vain:
We behold it everywhere
On the earth, and in the air
But it never comes again.