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Your own fair youth, you care so little for it,          Smiling towards Heaven, you would not stay the advances          Of time and change upon your happiest fancies.     I keep your golden hour, and will restore it.     If ever, in time to come, you would explore it--          Your old self whose thoughts went like last year's pansies,          Look unto me; no mirror keeps its glances;     In my unfailing praises now I store it.     To keep all joys of yours from Time's estranging,          I shall be then a treasury where your gay,                 Happy, and pensive past for ever is.     I shall be then a garden charmed from changing,          In which your June has never passed away.                 Walk there awhile among my memories.

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