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When you and I were young the days	A
Were filled with scent of pink and rose	B
And full of joy from dawn till close	C
From morning's mist till evening's haze	A
And when the robin sung his song	D
The verdant woodland ways along	D
We whistled louder than he sung	E
And school was joy and work was sport	F
For which the hours were all too short	F
When you and I were young my boy	G
When you and I were young	E
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When you and I were young the woods	H
Brimmed bravely o'er with every joy	G
To charm the happy hearted boy	G
The quail turned out her timid broods	H
The prickly copse a hostess fine	I
Held high black cups of harmless wine	I
And low the laden grape vine swung	E
With beads of night kissed amethyst	J
Where buzzing lovers held their tryst	J
When you and I were young my boy	G
When you and I were young	E
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When you and I were young the cool	K
And fresh wind fanned our fevered brows	H
When tumbling o'er the scented mows	H
Or stripping by the dimpling pool	K
Sedge fringed about its shimmering face	H
Save where we 'd worn an ent'ring place	H
How with our shouts the calm banks rung	E
How flashed the spray as we plunged in	L
Pure gems that never caused a sin	L
When you and I were young my boy	G
When you and I were young	E
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When you and I were young we heard	M
All sounds of Nature with delight	N
The whirr of wing in sudden flight	N
The chirping of the baby bird	M
The columbine's red bells were rung	E
The locust's vested chorus sung	E
While every wind his zithern strung	E
To high and holy sounding keys	H
And played sonatas in the trees	H
When you and I were young my boy	G
When you and I were young	E
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When you and I were young we knew	O
To shout and laugh to work and play	P
And night was partner to the day	P
In all our joys So swift time flew	O
On silent wings that ere we wist	J
The fleeting years had fled unmissed	J
And from our hearts this cry was wrung	E
To fill with fond regret and tears	H
The days of our remaining years	H
When you and I were young my boy	G
When you and I were young	E

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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