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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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