What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.
The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.