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Joy came in youth as a humming-bird, / (Sing hey! for the honey and bloom of life!) / And it made a home in my summer bower / With the honeysuckle and the sweet-pea flower. / (Sing hey! for the blossoms and sweets of life!)
Joy came as a lark when the years had gone, / (Ah! hush, hush still, for the dream is short!) / And I gazed far up to the melting blue / Where the rare song dropped like a golden dew. / (Ah! sweet is the song tho' the dream be short!)