id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 7396 Holmes, Oliver Wendell The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 09 The Iron Gate and Other Poems .txt text/plain 12586 1262 95 Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers, On life's last leaf with tranquil eye shall read The old look on with tear-dimmed eyes, "The Morning of Life" dawns again as of old. Showed in life's landscape, far away, In vain their eyes our longing fathers strained We lived, we loved, we toiled, we dreamed like you, To hear the larger truths its years shall bring, YOUTH IS LIFE'S SEED-TIME: so the clock-face said: Throb from a heart that holds thy memory dear. The friend of joyous days when life was new, Not every day our eyes may look upon.) Whose voice like music charmed the listening ear, So all life's opening paths, where nature led Between life's morning and its evening dreams; No life-long aim with steadfast eye pursued Than Art's long battle with the foes of life! Till the long curtain, falling, dims the day, ./cache/7396.txt ./txt/7396.txt