Youth Comes Again br br br br Teaching that for everything br there’s a season and a time br Qoheleth, the great Preacher-King br inspired this short verse in rhyme. br br We who squander sorrows br anticipating joys br of nebulous tomorrows br the gods of grief annoy. br We regard most sadly br misfortune’s rhyme and reason, br bringing strength till madly br youth comes again in season. br br br Inspired by Rilke’s Tenth Elegy, translated by the wife of Andrew Solomon, whose book “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression” (Scribner) Rosemary Dinnage reviews in The New York Review of Books, October 4,2001: br br br We, who squander our sorrows, br How we look beyond them into br the mournful passage of time br to see whether they might end. br br But they are seasons of us, yes, our winter- br Abiding leafage, meadows, br ponds, landscapes we are born into, br inhabited by birds and creatures in the reeds.