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matthew arnold - youth and calm - ghizela rowe lyrics

’tis death! and peace, indeed, is here
and ease from shame, and rest from fear
there’s nothing can dismarble now
the smoothness of that limpid brow
but is a calm like this, in truth
the crowning end of life and youth
and when this boon rewards the dead
are all debts paid, has all been said?
and is the heart of youth so light
its step so firm, its eye so bright
because on its hot brow there blows
a wind of promise and repose
from the far grave, to which it goes;
because it hath thе hope to come
one day, to harbour in thе tomb?
ah no, the bliss youth dreams is one
for daylight, for the cheerful sun
for feeling nerves and living breath—
youth dreams a bliss on this side death
it dreams a rest, if not more deep
more grateful than this marble sleep;
it hears a voice within it tell:
calm’s not life’s crown, though calm is well
’tis all perhaps which man acquires
but ’tis not what our youth desires

- ghizela rowe lyrics

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