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How long ago it is since we went Maying!     Since she and I went Maying long ago! -     The years have left my forehead lined, I know,     Have thinned my hair around the temples graying.     Ah, time will change us: yea, I hear it saying -     "She too grows old: the face of rose and snow     Has lost its freshness: in the hair's brown glow     Some strands of silver sadly, too, are straying.     The form you knew, whose beauty so enspelled,     Has lost the litheness of its loveliness:     And all the gladness that her blue eyes held     Tears and the world have hardened with distress." -     "True! true!" I answer, "O ye years that part!     These things are chaned - but is her heart, her heart?"

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