Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
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I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.
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Let us go hence, my songs she will not hear.
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Laurel is green for a season, And love is sweet for a day But love grows bitter with treason, And laurel outlives not May.
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