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Yesterdays

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Gone! and they return no more,      But they leave a light in the heart;     The murmur of waves that kiss a shore      Will never, I know, depart.     Gone! yet with us still they stay,      And their memories throb through life;     The music that hushes or stirs to-day,      Is toned by their calm or strife.     Gone! and yet they never go!      We kneel at the shrine of time:     'Tis a mystery no man may know,      Nor tell in a poet's rhyme.

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