Youth is too eager, forth it flings
Itself upon exulting wings,
Which seek the heaven they ask too near-
One wild flight ends the bright career;
With broken wing and darkened eye,
Earth claims again its own to die. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Youth is too eager, forth it flings Itself upon exulting wings, Which seek the heaven they ask too near- One wild flight ends the bright career; With broken wing and darkened eye, Earth claims again its own to die.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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