When You and I Were Young, Maggie
Composer, James Austin Butterfield, 1866
 

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|     I | wandered to | day to the | hill, | Maggie, to | watch the scene b e | low. |
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| The | creek and the | rusty old |mill, | Maggie, where we | sat in the | long, long a | go. |
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|    The | green grove is | gone from the | hill, | Maggie  where | first the |
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| daisies have | sprung. |   The old rusty | mill is | still, | Maggie, since |
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| you and | I were | young. | 'n a city so | silent and | lone, | Maggie, where |
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| the young and | the gay an' | best. | In | polished white | mansions of stone, |
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| Maggie, have | each found a | place of | rest, |  is | built where the |
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| birds used to | play, | Maggie, and | join in | songs that were | sung. |
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|    For | we sang just | as gay as | they, | Maggie, when | you and I were | young. |
 

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|  They | say I am | feeble with | age, | Maggie, my | steps are | less sprightly 'n then |
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| my | face is a | well written | page, | Maggie, but | time alone was the | pen. |

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| When | you and | I were | young. |     | 

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