Whittier

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    God pity them both! and pity us all,
    Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.

    For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
    The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    How dwarfed against his manliness
    She sees the poor pretension,
    The wants, the aims, the follies, born
    Of fashion and convention!
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    O Time and Change!—with hair as gray
    As was my sire’s that winter day,
    How strange it seems, with so much gone
    Of life and love, to still live on!
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)