To Wish Myself Courage + 

On the day when youth is no more upon me + 

I will write of the leaves and the moon in a tree top! + 

I will sing then the song, long in the making⁠— + 

When the stress of youth is put away from me. + 

How can I ever be written out as men say? + 

Surely it is merely an interference with the long song⁠— + 

This that I am now doing. + 

But when the spring of it is worn like the old moon + 

And the eaten leaves are lace upon the cold earth⁠— + 

Then I will rise up in my great desire⁠— + 

Long at the birth⁠—and sing me the youth-song! + 