While Beauty and Youth are in Their Full Prime by Hannah More MORALITY—Composer Unknown While Beauty and Youth are in Their Full Prime 1 While beauty and youth are in their full prime, And folly and fashion affect our whole time, Oh, let not the phantom wishes engage; Let’s live so in youth that we blush not in age. 2 I sigh not for beauty, nor languish for wealth, But grant me, kind Providence, virtue and health; Then, richer than kings, and far happier than they, My days shall pass swiftly