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An Oxford Idyll

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Ah little mill, you're rumbling still,     Ah sunset flecked with gold!     Ah deepening tinge, ah purple fringe     Of lilac as of old!     Ah hawthorn hedge, ah light-won pledge     Of kisses warm and plenty,     When she was true, and twenty-two,     And I was two-and-twenty.     I don't know how she broke her vow,     She said that I was "horty"     And there's the mill a goin' still,     And I am five-and-forty.     And sooth to tell, 'twas just as well,     Her aitches were uncertain;     Her ways though nice, not point-device;     Her father liked his" Burton."     But there's a place you cannot trace,     So spare the fond endeavour,     A cloudless sky, where Kate and I     Are twenty-two for ever.

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