There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all… - Richard Henry Stoddard

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There are gains for all our losses,
There are balms for all our pain:
But when youth, the dream, departs,
It takes something from our hearts,
And it never comes again.

Richard Henry Stoddard

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Richard Henry Stoddard (July 2, 1825 – May 12, 1903) was a U.S. critic and poet, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts.

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Alternative Names: R. H. Stoddard • Richard H. Stoddard • Richard Stoddard

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Once when the days were ages,
And the old Earth was young,
The high gods and the sages
From Nature's golden pages
Her open secrets wrung.
Each questioned each to know
Whence came the Heavens above, and whence the Earth below.

We love in others what we lack ourselves,
And would be every thing but what we are.

Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears,
Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

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