This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing
Poems and sketches of E.B. White (ed. HarperCollins Publishers, 1983) - ISBN: 9780060909697