Wednesday, 17 November 2010

'The Season made for Joys', by John Gay, 1728

Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty:
She alone who that employs
Well deserves her beauty.
Let's be gay
While we may:
Beautiy's a flower despised in decay.

Let us drink and sport today,
Ours is not tomorrow.
Love with youth flies swift away:
Age is nought but sorrow.
Dance and sing
Time's on the wing:
Life never knows the return of Spring.

No comments:

Post a Comment