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Life is a privilege. Its youthful days / Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays. / To live, to breathe, to wonder and desire, / To feed with dreams the heart's perpetual fire, / To thrill with virtuous passions, and to glow / With great ambitions-in one hour to know / The depths and heights of feeling-God! in truth, / How beautiful, how beautiful is youth!
Life is a privilege. Like some rare rose / The mysteries of the human mind unclose. / What marvels lie in earth, and air, and sea! / What stores of knowledge wait our opening key! / What sunny roads of happiness lead out / Beyond the realms of indolence and doubt! / And what large pleasures smile upon and bless / The busy avenues of usefulness!