RETROSPECTION
from Majors and Minors (c1895)
by Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906)

When you and I were young, the days
  Were filled with scent of pink and rose,
  And full of joy from dawn till close,
From morning's mist till evening's haze.
  And when the robin sung his song
  The verdant woodland ways along,
    We whistled louder than he sung.
And school was joy, and work was sport
For which the hours were all too short,
  When you and I were young, my boy,
    When you and I were young.


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