Heaven gives our years of fading strength
final stanza of Thomas Campbell’s, “The River of Life,” as found in Book Fourth of Palgrave’s Golden Treasury (Longmans, Green, green, and Co. (1905)
Indemnifying fleetness;
And those of youth, a seeming length,
Proportion’d to their sweetness.
Lines chosen while perusing because I can’t believe November’s almost over, and because I have a Big One Oh coming up shortly.