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A beautiful and happy girl	A
With step as light as summer air	B
Eyes glad with smiles and brow of pearl	A
Shadowed by many a careless curl	A
Of unconfined and flowing hair	B
A seeming child in everything	C
Save thoughtful brow and ripening charms	D
As Nature wears the smile of Spring	C
When sinking into Summer's arms	D
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A mind rejoicing in the light	E
Which melted through its graceful bower	F
Leaf after leaf dew moist and bright	E
And stainless in its holy white	E
Unfolding like a morning flower	F
A heart which like a fine toned lute	G
With every breath of feeling woke	H
And even when the tongue was mute	G
From eye and lip in music spoke	H
	-
How thrills once more the lengthening chain	I
Of memory at the thought of thee	J
Old hopes which long in dust have lain	I
Old dreams come thronging back again	K
And boyhood lives again in me	J
I feel its glow upon my cheek	L
Its fulness of the heart is mine	M
As when I leaned to hear thee speak	L
Or raised my doubtful eye to thine	M
	-
I hear again thy low replies	N
I feel thy arm within my own	O
And timidly again uprise	N
The fringed lids of hazel eyes	N
With soft brown tresses overblown	O
Ah memories of sweet summer eves	P
Of moonlit wave and willowy way	Q
Of stars and flowers and dewy leaves	P
And smiles and tones more dear than they	Q
	-
Ere this thy quiet eye hath smiled	R
My picture of thy youth to see	J
When half a woman half a child	R
Thy very artlessness beguiled	R
And folly's self seemed wise in thee	J
I too can smile when o'er that hour	F
The lights of memory backward stream	S
Yet feel the while that manhood's power	F
Is vainer than my boyhood's dream	S
	-
Years have passed on and left their trace	T
Of graver care and deeper thought	U
And unto me the calm cold face	T
Of manhood and to thee the grace	T
Of woman's pensive beauty brought	U
More wide perchance for blame than praise	V
The school boy's humble name has flown	O
Thine in the green and quiet ways	V
Of unobtrusive goodness known	O
	-
And wider yet in thought and deed	W
Diverge our pathways one in youth	X
Thine the Genevan's sternest creed	W
While answers to my spirit's need	W
The Derby dalesman's simple truth	X
For thee the priestly rite and prayer	B
And holy day and solemn psalm	Y
For me the silent reverence where	B
My brethren gather slow and calm	Z
	-
Yet hath thy spirit left on me	J
An impress Time has worn not out	A2
And something of myself in thee	J
A shadow from the past I see	J
Lingering even yet thy way about	A2
Not wholly can the heart unlearn	O
That lesson of its better hours	B2
Not yet has Time's dull footstep worn	O
To common dust that path of flowers	B2
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Thus while at times before our eyes	N
The shadows melt and fall apart	C2
And smiling through them round us lies	N
The warm light of our morning skies	N
The Indian Summer of the heart	C2
In secret sympathies of mind	D2
In founts of feeling which retain	O
Their pure fresh flow we yet may find	D2
Our early dreams not wholly vain	O

John Greenleaf Whittier

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