Invocation to Youth

By Laurence Binyon

Born 1869


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?

DayPoems Poem No. 818
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