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Ashes Of Life

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Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;             Eat I must, and sleep I will,--and would that night were here!         But ah!--to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike!             Would that it were day again!--with twilight near!         Love has gone and left me and I don't know what to do;             This or that or what you will is all the same to me;         But all the things that I begin I leave before I'm through,--             There's little use in anything as far as I can see.         Love has gone and left me,--and the neighbors knock and borrow,             And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse,--         And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow             There's this little street and this little house.

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