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ILLUSIONS
In summer when the heaths were brown,
Love led us lightly to and fro
By sandy beach and sloping down,
Love led us lightly to and fro
By sandy beach and sloping down,
And idling with us watched below
The sea-wall of the little town
The grey-green Channel ebb and flow.
The sea-wall of the little town
The grey-green Channel ebb and flow.
But many a love and many a year
Divide us since we went to climb
The breezy cliffs and deemed sublime
The sea's long music in our ear.
Divide us since we went to climb
The breezy cliffs and deemed sublime
The sea's long music in our ear.
And though dead love is worth a tear,
It seems but barely worth the time
To put the memory in rhyme,
It was so long ago, my dear!
It seems but barely worth the time
To put the memory in rhyme,
It was so long ago, my dear!
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