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The New Love

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I thought my heart was death chilled,          I thought its fires were cold;     But the new love, the new love,          It warmeth like the old.     I thought its rooms were shadowed          With the gloom of endless night;     But the new love, the new love,          It fills them full of light.     I thought the chambers empty,          And proclaimed it unto men;     But the new love, the new love,          It peoples them again.     I thought its halls were silent,          And hushed the whole day long;     But the new love, the new love,          It fills them full of song.     Then here is to the new love,          Let who will sing the old;     The new love, the new love,          'Tis more than fame or gold.     For it gives us joy for sorrow,          And it gives us warmth for cold;     Oh! the new love, the new love,          'Tis better than the old.

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