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The Key-Note.

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Where are the songs I used to know,     Where are the notes I used to sing?     I have forgotten everything     I used to know so long ago;     Summer has followed after Spring;     Now Autumn is so shrunk and sere,     I scarcely think a sadder thing     Can be the Winter of my year.     Yet Robin sings through Winter's rest,     When bushes put their berries on;     While they their ruddy jewels don,     He sings out of a ruddy breast;     The hips and haws and ruddy breast     Make one spot warm where snowflakes lie     They break and cheer the unlovely rest     Of Winter's pause - and why not I?

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"Where are the songs I used to know,..."

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