Love
Vantage
From The Singing Leaves (1903)
Love
The wisest finding that I have
Is very young, no doubt.
Yet many a man must needs grow old
Before he finds it out.
How happily it comes about—
And I was never told!—
That we must all be young awhile,
Before we can be old.
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MLA
Peabody, Josephine Preston. “Vantage.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peabody/56/.
Chicago
Peabody, Josephine Preston. “Vantage.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peabody/56/.
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