Excerpt from Horizons and Landmarks: Poems

THREE AGES OF MAN

The child is part of all that he beholds,
Youth with his dreams of love the world enfolds,
Man takes life in his hands, and mars or moulds.

Freed of its load, washed of its gathered stain,
In the child's spirit life is born again.
Of all he sees and loves he is a part:
Faith lights his footsteps, filtered through his heart
The everlasting fountain-springs o'er-run
In rills of joy, and life and he are one.

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