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On The Tune Called The Old-Hundred-And-Fourth

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We never sang together     Ravenscroft's terse old tune     On Sundays or on weekdays,     In sharp or summer weather,     At night-time or at noon.     Why did we never sing it,     Why never so incline     On Sundays or on weekdays,     Even when soft wafts would wing it     From your far floor to mine?     Shall we that tune, then, never     Stand voicing side by side     On Sundays or on weekdays? . . .     Or shall we, when for ever     In Sheol we abide,     Sing it in desolation,     As we might long have done     On Sundays or on weekdays     With love and exultation     Before our sands had run?

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