Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
Youth, large, lusty, loving--youth full of grace, force,
fascination,
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal
grace,
force, fascination?
Day full-blown and splendid--day of the immense sun, action,
ambition, laughter,
The Night follows close with millions of suns,
and sleep and restoring darkness.
Walt Whitman