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Life Laughs Onward

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Rambling I looked for an old abode     Where, years back, one had lived I knew;     Its site a dwelling duly showed,      But it was new.     I went where, not so long ago,     The sod had riven two breasts asunder;     Daisies throve gaily there, as though      No grave were under.     I walked along a terrace where     Loud children gambolled in the sun;     The figure that had once sat there      Was missed by none.     Life laughed and moved on unsubdued,     I saw that Old succumbed to Young:     'Twas well. My too regretful mood      Died on my tongue.

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