Show WHILE THE HEIAJIT BEATS YOUNG While the heart beats young Oh the splendor of the spring With all her dewy jewels on is not so fair a thing The fairest rarest morning of the bios son time of May Is not so sweet a season a the season of 4 today While Youths diviner climate folds and holds us close caressed As we feel our mothers with uS by the touch of face and breast Our bare feet inthe meadows and our fancies up among The rosy clouds of morning while the heart beats young While the heart beats young and our pulses leap and dance With every day a holiday and life a glad romance We hear the birds with wonder and with wonder watch their flight Standing still the more enchanted both of 1 hearing and of sight When they have vanished wholly for infancy In-fancy wing to wing We fly to heaven with them and returning return-ing still we sIng The praises of this lower heaven with tireless voice and tongue Evn as the master sanctions while the heart beats young While the heart beats young while the heart beats young Ob green azure and overhung gold old earth of ours with And looped with rainbows grant us yet this grassy lap of thine We would be still thy children through the shower and the shine So pray we lispingw hispering in childish child-ish love and trust With our beseeching hands and faces lifted from the dust By fervor of the poem all unwritten and unsung Thou gIvest us In answer while the heartbeats heart-beats young bets you youngLadies Home Journal Jouna f r J |