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Youth

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I am not sure if I knew the truth         What his case or crime might be,     I only know that he pleaded Youth,         A beautiful, golden plea!     Youth, with its sunlit, passionate eyes,         Its roseate velvet skin -     A plea to cancel a thousand lies,         Or a thousand nights of sin.     The men who judged him were old and grey         Their eyes and their senses dim,     He brought the light of a warm Spring day         To the Court-house bare and grim.     Could he plead guilty in a lovelier way?     His judges acquitted him.

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"I am not sure if I knew the truth..."

Exploring the themes of classic, Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson) delivers a powerful performance in "Youth"... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

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