TRIOLET
The pleasures and glories of life
either never come or come to us too late.
They shine close up, they pass fleetingly,
the pleasures and glories of life.
Sad is the man who in his best years
delays plucking the flowers of life!
The pleasures and glories of life
either never come or come to us too late.
Manuel González Prada
English Translation by Seymour Resnick