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THE GOVERNESS.
Have you been lonely, darling? So have I,And weary, oh! so sick and sad at times—
I used to hum the old familiar rhymes
That we, do you remember, used to try
Upon the pianoforte on the sly—
Delight ecstatic of those youthful crimes!
Most marvellous melody of those drawing-room chimes
Sometimes in the morning no one else being by!
So sorrowfully they came back to me
Laden with fragrance of the vanished past—
I thought at the time it was too good to last,
That such excessive happiness must flee,
And so it did, but now hath followed fast
A far more radiant reality.
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