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The smiling face of a happy boy / With its enchanted key / Is now unlocking in memory / My store of heartiest joy.
And my lost life again to-day, / In pleasant colors all aglow, / From rainbow tints, to pure white snow, / Is a panorama sliding away.
The whistled air of a simple tune / Eddies and whirls my thoughts around, / As fairy balloons of thistle-down / Sail through the air of June.
O happy boy with untaught grace!
What is there in the world to give / That can buy one hour of the life you live / Or the trivial cause of your smiling face!