By Luis G. Dato
In life there is no pleasure
To love and youth unknown
For love is life’s one treasure,
And love and life are one.
In youth there is one sorrow
To love and life well known,
For beauty fades tomorrow,
When youth from love has flown.
But love is like the shower,
That waters garden dry
And brings to earth a flower
That blooms but cannot die.
— Philippine Magazine, August 1926
