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青春の詩
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“YOUTH”
Youth is not a time of life---it is a state of mind;
it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple
knees; it is a matter of the will,a quality of the im-
agination, a vigor of the emotions;it is the freshness
of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage
over timidity of the appetite,for adventure over the
love of ease.This often exists in a man of sixty more
than a boy of twenty.Nobody grows old merely by number
of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin,but to give up enthuasiam
wrinkles the soul. Worry ,fear,self-distrust bows the
heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether sity or sixteen, there is in every human bei-
ng's heart the lure of wonder,the unfailing child-like
appetite of what's next,and the joy of game of living.
In the center of your heart and my heart there is wire-
less station; so long as it receives messages of beauty,
hope,cheer,courage and power from men and from the Infi-
nite,so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your sprit is covered
with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism , then
you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your
aerial are up, to catch the waves of opitimism, there
is hope you may die young at eighty.
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