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Time Long Past.

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1.     Like the ghost of a dear friend dead     Is Time long past.     A tone which is now forever fled,     A hope which is now forever past,     A love so sweet it could not last,     Was Time long past.     2.     There were sweet dreams in the night     Of Time long past:     And, was it sadness or delight,     Each day a shadow onward cast     Which made us wish it yet might last -     That Time long past.     3.     There is regret, almost remorse,     For Time long past.     'Tis like a child's beloved corse     A father watches, till at last     Beauty is like remembrance, cast     From Time long past.

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