YOU SHALL ABOVE ALL THINGS BE GLAD AND YOUNG

By: ee cummings

you shall above all things be glad and young

For if you're young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you're gladwhatever's living will yourself become.

Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:

i can entirely her only love 

whose any mystery makes every man's

flesh put space on;

and his mind take off time that you should ever think, may god forbid

and (in his mercy) your true lover spare:

for that way knowledge lies, the foetal grave

called progress, and negation's dead undoom. 

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing

than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance