Invocation to Youth
by Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

Come then, as ever, like the wind at morning!
      Joyous, O Youth, in the aged world renew
Freshness to feel the eternities around it,
      Rain, stars and clouds, light and the sacred dew.
            The strong sun shines above thee:
            That strength, that radiance bring!
            If Winter come to Winter,
            When shall men hope for Spring?

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