Quote#Children
When I was young, I said to Sorrow
Quote byAubrey Thomas de Vere · 1814–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Song, When I was Young I said to Sorrow; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 736..
English (original)
When I was young, I said to Sorrow, "Come and I will play with thee!" He is near me now all day, And at night returns to say, "I will come again to-morrow— I will come and stay with thee."
— Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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