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We have left our youth behind: / Earth is in its baby years: / Void of wisdom cries the wind, / And the sunlight knows no tears.
When shall twilight feel the awe, / All the rapt thought of the sage, / And the lips of wind give law / Drawn from out their lore of age?
When shall earth begin to burn / With such love as thrills my breast?
When shall we together turn / To our long, long home for rest?
Child and father, we grow old / While you laugh and play with flowers; / And life's tale for us is told / Holding only empty hours.
Giant child, on you await / All the hopes and fears of men.
In thy fulness is our fate -- / What till then, oh, what till then?