Youth - a short story by Joseph Conrad

A 36 page short story entitled 'Youth' by Joseph Conrad
Tells the harrowing story of a young first mate on his journey to the far East.
pg. 138 'profane scallywags'
pg. 135 'the right stuff'
pg. 141 gives homage to Job 5 verses 6-8
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground. Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause.

pg. 146 "I did not know how good a man I was till then....I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back anymore - the feeling that I could last forever, out last the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort - to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires - and expires, too soon, too soon - before life itself."

pg 151...we all nodded at him...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love, our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone - has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash - together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.