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FINIS
Ah! you and I are not so far
From luckless fortune, now it seems,
Sweet lips, for all our foolish dreams
Of joy beneath a favouring star.
From luckless fortune, now it seems,
Sweet lips, for all our foolish dreams
Of joy beneath a favouring star.
Joy was: and fortune changes. Chance
That brought us somehow heart to heart
Now bids us once touch lips and part.
I go to work and you to dance.
That brought us somehow heart to heart
Now bids us once touch lips and part.
I go to work and you to dance.
Ah, best and dearest love that yet
Made sweeter life's unfriended way,
It must be many a weary day
Ere you and I forget, forget!
Made sweeter life's unfriended way,
It must be many a weary day
Ere you and I forget, forget!
Time conquers even a memory,
But this alone he cannot do—
Bring back such love again to you,
Such lips and loveliness to me!
But this alone he cannot do—
Bring back such love again to you,
Such lips and loveliness to me!
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