Hello! Could you please help me with this refrain from Longfellow's famous poem "My Lost Youth":
'A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.'
I've read the whole poem, and the doubt which remains is: is will being used in the sense of desire, wish, intention (like in free will), or, rather melancholy, in the sense of a declaration of one's wish after death - implying the death of the poet's youth?
'A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.'
I've read the whole poem, and the doubt which remains is: is will being used in the sense of desire, wish, intention (like in free will), or, rather melancholy, in the sense of a declaration of one's wish after death - implying the death of the poet's youth?