What has become of it, your youth and mine, That once we drank together like a wine, And while we kissed the brimming bowl and quaffed, Joked at ourselves, and laughed, and laughed, and laughed. Even the antic echo of our mirth, Gay shadow of it, has perished from the earth, And silence has fallen where there used to be The joyousness of the prime for you and me. You have taken it with you whither you have gone, And I, who here behind you, linger on, Make it my cheer that in whatever far Planet you dwell, our youth and gladness are. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WINGED MAN by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET THE GARDEN YEAR by SARA COLERIDGE BOADICEA; AN ODE by WILLIAM COWPER 23RD STREET RUNS INTO HEAVEN by KENNETH PATCHEN THE DEPARTED by JOHN BANISTER TABB TO THE GIRL WHO HELPED IN THE WAR by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM BACON |