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42
LAST YEAR
Was it last Summer, just last year,
Or many and many a year ago,
Our hearts went shadowed by that fear?
Now Time and Space are darkened so
It might be fifty years since then,
And, Love, our boys are home again.
Or many and many a year ago,
Our hearts went shadowed by that fear?
Now Time and Space are darkened so
It might be fifty years since then,
And, Love, our boys are home again.
So long since we two bore that strain
And shook for what the day might bring!
And now our boys are home again,
'Scaped from the bitter and dreadful thing.
You will not turn, Love, to rejoice,
Even for the boys, Love, the safe boys!
And shook for what the day might bring!
And now our boys are home again,
'Scaped from the bitter and dreadful thing.
You will not turn, Love, to rejoice,
Even for the boys, Love, the safe boys!
So long, Love, since you went away,
And yet the laggard year's not spent!
Our boys are here, Love, brave and gay;
It is so long, Love, since you went.
If but this year were gone, who knows
What flower of hope might bud, what rose?
And yet the laggard year's not spent!
Our boys are here, Love, brave and gay;
It is so long, Love, since you went.
If but this year were gone, who knows
What flower of hope might bud, what rose?
Only last year! So wide, so deep
The river runs 'twixt now and then.
Here is the feast of joy to keep,
Since, Love, the boys are home again.
But, dim in darkness lies last year
And the New Year, Love, the New Year!
The river runs 'twixt now and then.
Here is the feast of joy to keep,
Since, Love, the boys are home again.
But, dim in darkness lies last year
And the New Year, Love, the New Year!
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