Poems (Stoddard)/"Oh, the wild, wild days of youth!"
"OH, THE WILD, WILD DAYS OF YOUTH!"
OH, the wild, wild days of youth! My royal youth;My blood was then my king: Maybe a little mad, But full of truth!
Oh, my lips were like a rose! And my heart, too;It was torn out leaf by leaf: Ah! there be none that know How the leaves flew!
Oh, they dropped in the wine! The royal wine;There were showers for the girls, Crowns for their white brows, And for mine!