Page:The poems of Richard Watson Gilder, Gilder, 1908.djvu/166

138 Life up-gathers carks and cares,

So good-by to maid and lover!

Find three gray hairs,

And cry, "All's over!"

Look at Browning! How he keeps

In the seventies still a heart

That never sleeps—

Still an art

Full of youth's own grit and power,

Thoughts we deemed to boys belonging;

The springtime's flower—

Love-and-longing.

TO AN ENGLISH FRIEND

WITH EMERSON'S "POEMS"