Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Invocation to Youth

Laurence Binyon (1869–1943)

COME then, as ever, like the wind at morning!

Joyous, O Youth, in the agèd world renew

Freshness to feel the eternities around it,

Rain, stars and clouds, light and the sacred dew.

The strong sun shines above thee:

That strength, that radiance bring!

If Winter come to Winter,

When shall men hope for Spring?