You asked, "If you had all your life to live again,

would you have it changed?" And I answer,

Not in one single act or thought, but that I

might live longer.

Life has not shown me unmixed joy, nor unmixed pain;

there are no fond regrets for anything.

All that I had - and I had far more than I could deserve,

being unworthy of the great gifts that I had

of life -

All that I gave - and I gave of myself, perhaps

too largely to the friends and lovers of my youth -

All that I did - and I filled each day to the ut-

most, thinking and dreaming and living, tasting

the highest and lowest fruits of life and love -

These I would not have changed, were I to do it

again. But I wish that my years could be more,

that the time came not so soon to leave, and the

fare-wells be not so near at hand. This is the one

regret i have of life.

Change it? No. If the dream could be dreams ed again,

the same day would be at the end.

We step along a path that leads us - who knows where,

except that it leads us on - and up.

All around are great things to do and see; and we

know not where the journey began, or where it

ends, and all too short is the little way we go.