Cleonice Berardinelli e Eduardo Lourenço: o esplendor dos 90 anos

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;	185
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,	190
In years that bring the philosophic mind. (Wordsworth, dedicado aos queridos e jovens amigos Cleonice e Eduardo)