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We sat within the farm house old	A
Whose windows looking o'er the bay	B
Gave to the sea breeze damp and cold	A
An easy entrance night and day	B
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Not far away we saw the port	C
The strange old fashioned silent town	D
The lighthouse the dismantled fort	C
The wooden houses quaint and brown	D
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We sat and talked until the night	E
Descending filled the little room	F
Our faces faded from the sight	E
Our voices only broke the gloom	F
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We spake of many a vanished scene	G
Of what we once had thought and said	H
Of what had been and might have been	I
And who was changed and who was dead	H
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And all that fills the hearts of friends	J
When first they feel with secret pain	K
Their lives thenceforth have separate ends	J
And never can be one again	L
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The first slight swerving of the heart	M
That words are powerless to express	N
And leave it still unsaid in part	M
Or say it in too great excess	N
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The very tones in which we spake	O
Had something strange I could but mark	P
The leaves of memory seemed to make	O
A mournful rustling in the dark	P
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Oft died the words upon our lips	Q
As suddenly from out the fire	R
Built of the wreck of stranded ships	Q
The flames would leap and then expire	S
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And as their splendor flashed and failed	T
We thought of wrecks upon the main	K
Of ships dismasted that were hailed	T
And sent no answer back again	L
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The windows rattling in their frames	U
The ocean roaring up the beach	V
The gusty blast the bickering flames	U
All mingled vaguely in our speech	V
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Until they made themselves a part	M
Of fancies floating through the brain	K
The long lost ventures of the heart	M
That send no answers back again	L
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O flames that glowed O hearts that yearned	W
They were indeed too much akin	I
The drift wood fire without that burned	W
The thoughts that burned and glowed within	I

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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