by Laurence Binyon (1869 - 1943)

Language: English 
Come then, as ever, like the wind at morning!
  Joyous, O Youth, in the agèd world renew
Freshness to feel the eternities around it, 
  Rain, stars and clouds, light and the sacred dew.
      The strong sun shines above thee:
      That strength, that radiance bring!
      If Winter come to Winter,
      When shall men hope for Spring?

Composition:

    Set to music by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Invocation to Youth", 1925, first performed 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Two Songs of Youth, no. 1

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