Poems (Griffin)/Live and Laugh

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LIVE AND LAUGH.
LIVE and laugh a little while;        Live and laugh.When in childhood's happy hours,Like the young Spring's opening flowers,Perfumed joys we lightly quaff,A little while we live and laugh.
Live and sing a little while        Live and sing.While life's cup with pleasure flows,Then the heart no sorrow knows;While our life is in its spring,A little while we live and sing.
Live and dream a little while;        Live and dream.While fond aspiration's starGlows with promises afar,And ambition makes its beam,A little while we live and dream.
Live and love a little while;        Live and love. ​While young beauty tints the brow,And the heart's warm pulses flow;Ere old Time youth's charm remove,A little while we live and love.
Live and weep a little while;        Live and weep.For our pleasures long since fled,For sweet friendships lost and dead,Tears of grief the fond heart steep;A little while we live and weep.
Passing by a little while;        Passing by,Go our brief and sadful hours,With their burden of heart-flowersFaded, withered, crushed, and dry:A little while we live,—then die.
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