Explore "The Youth of Man" by Matthew Arnold on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
We, O Nature, depart: / Thou survivest us: this, / This, I know, is the law.
Yes, but more than this, / Thou who seest us die / Seest us change while we live; / Seest our dreams, one by one, / Seest our errors depart: / Watchest us, Nature, throughout, / Mild and inscrutably calm.