Show wBOM THE GODS LOVE I L Whom the sods love die young 7Nay rather say With bated breath Whom the gods lovo dlo old Shall tho morn palo ore it hath coined Its gold The sun go down while yet It Is full day 3 ho statue sleep unxnoldcd in the cloy < The parchment crumble ere It IB unrolled un-rolled role The story end with half the talo untold The song drop mute and breathless by tho way Oh weep for Adonals when he dies With all youths lofty promise unfulfilled unful-filled Its splendor lost In sudden dear eclipse With lovo unlived and dreams half dreamed ho lies All tho red wino from lifes gold chalice goldchaIce spilled Ere Its bright brim hath touched his eager lips I Whom the gods love die old 1 0 life dear life Let tho old sinS thy praises for they know How year by year tho summers como and go Each ripe with Its own abounding sweetness They know though frosts b cruel as tho knife Yet with each Juno tho perfect roso shall blow And daisies blossom and the green grass grow Triumphant still unvexcd by storm or strife They know that night more splendid Is than day That sunset skies name In the Catherine dark stherJnf And tho deep waters change to molten gold They know that autumn richer is than May They hear tho nightbirds singing llko the lark slnslnClko All lire sweet life whom tho gods lovo die old gocs Julia of Scrlbner C R Dorr In tho Fiction Number |