Poem by Eleanor Farjeon

When You Say

When you say, I still am young,
You are young no more;
When, I’m old, is on your tongue,
Age is still in store.

Youth and age will never grope
To say what they may be:
One only knows it has a hope,
And one a certainty.

1. For Joan
2. Three Miles to Penn
3. The Moral
4. Poplars at Night
5. Never-Known

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