ENIGMA

I am not in youth, nor in manhood, nor age
But in infancy ever am known
I am a stranger alike to the fool and the sage,
And though I'm distinguished in history's page,
I always am greatest alone.
I am not in earth, nor the sun, nor the moon;
You may search all the sky--I am not there;
In the morning and evening--though not in the noon--
You may plainly perceive me--for like a balloon,
I'm midway suspended in air.
Though disease may possess me, and sickness and pain,
I am never in sorrow nor gloom;
Though in wit and wisdom I equally reign,
I'm the heart of all sin, and have lived in vain,
Yet I ne'er shall be found in the tomb.