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Youth is the time when all is bright;      The mind is free from care;     No thoughts of aught, save present joys,      Can find an entrance there.     And, if a thought of future years      Steal o'er the careless mind,     That thought speaks of a happier time      When years are left behind.     But when the years of youth have fled,      And life is fill'd with pain,     We think full oft of vanish'd years,      And wish them back again.     And oft this wish will soothe our pain,      And oft allay our woe,     Oh, sweet to us is mem'ry then,      When we think of long ago.     May thou live on till youth has pass'd,      And feel but little pain,     And may thou, in a blest old age,      Live o'er your youth again.

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