I recognised that I was (and I confessed) in that attitude of the mind wherein men admit mortality; something had already passed from me-I mean that fresh and vigorous morning of the eyes wherein the beauty of this land had been reflected as in a tiny mirror of burnished silver. Youth was gone out apart; it was loved and regretted, and therefore no longer possessed. (Hilaire Belloc)

I recognised that I was (and I confessed) in that attitude of the mind wherein men admit mortality; something had already passed from me-I mean that fresh and vigorous morning of the eyes wherein the beauty of this land had been reflected as in a tiny mirror of burnished silver. Youth was gone out apart; it was loved and regretted, and therefore no longer possessed.

Hilaire Belloc

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