Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume III/Youth and Love

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Youth and Love.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

THE DISCLOSURE.

Young, loving, and beloved—these are brief words;
And yet they touch on all the finer chords,
Whose music is our happiness; the tone
May die away, and be no longer known,
In the sad changes brought by darker years,
When the heart has to treasure up its tears,
And life looks mournful on an altered scene—
Still it is much to think that it has been.

Blanchard’s title is:

YOUTH AND LOVE

From The Venetian Bracelet, Canto I