"Youth and Age"
(by E.B. White)
This is what youth must figure out:
   Girls, love, and living.
   The having, the not having,
   The spending and giving,
And the melancholy time of not knowing.

This is what age must learn about:
   The ABC of dying.
   The going, yet not going,
   The loving and leaving,
And the unbearable knowing and knowing.
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