 | The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay |  |
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BYGONES.
Bygones! Bygones! cold and dark,Why should ye haunt the sunny beam?
Dim as ghosts in Charon's bark,
Ye cloud the living stream
Love has wept its April tears;
Then why recall the parted rain?
And smiling Hope has banish'd fears;
Then wherefore bid them back again?
Last year's gales no longer strive
To scatter leaves that bloom to-day;
Why should last year's griefs revive?
Bygones! Bygones! pass away!
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