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Youths Agitations

By Matthew Arnold

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When I shall be divorced, some ten years hence,     From this poor present self which I am now;     When youth has done its tedious vain expense     Of passions that for ever ebb and flow;     Shall I not joy youths heats are left behind,     And breathe more happy in an even clime?     Ah no! for then I shall begin to find     A thousand virtues in this hated time.     Then I shall wish its agitations back,     And all its thwarting currents of desire;     Then I shall praise the heat which then I lack,     And call this hurrying fever, generous fire,     And sigh that one thing only has been lent     To youth and age in common discontent

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About Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) was an English poet and critic whose poems "Dover Beach" and "The Scholar Gipsy" explore Victorian doubt and the search for meaning. His critical work "Culture and Anarchy" (1869) remains influential in literary and cultural studies.

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