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Back on its golden hinges / The gate of Memory swings, / And my heart goes into the garden / And walks with the olden things. / The old-time, joys and pleasures. / The loves that it used to know, / It meets there in the garden. / And they wander to and fro.
It heareth a peal of laughter, / It seeth a face most fair. / It thrills with a wild, strange rapture / At the glance of a dark eye there; / It strayeth under the sunset / In the midst of a merry throng, / And beats in a tuneful measure, / To the snatch of a floating song.