¿Indifferent mystery, she was for him / Something still uncreated, incomplete.¿ In ¿The Defeat of Youth, ¿ the poet muses on earthly and heavenly beauty, on the suddenness with which innocence turns to experience, leaving the world to ¿waver[] like the flame / Of a blown candle. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is a poetry collection by Aldous Huxley.