To be a prodigal's favourite - then, worse truth,
A miser's pensioner - behold our lot!
O man, that from thy fair and shining youth
Age might but take the things youth needed not!
Source: The Small Celandine
-- William Wordsworth, (Apr 7 1770-1850), English poet; His Lyrical Ballads, 1798 are noted for their worship of nature and humanitarianism; poet laureate, 1843-50.