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/ How long ago it is since we went Maying! / Since she and I went Maying long ago! -- / The years have left my forehead lined, I know, / Have thinned my hair around the temples graying. / Ah, time will change us: yea, I hear it saying -- / "She too grows old: the face of rose and snow / Has lost its freshness: in the hair's brown glow / Some strands of silver sadly, too, are straying. / The form you knew, whose beauty so enspelled, / Has lost the litheness of its loveliness: / And all the gladness that her blue eyes held / Tears and the world have hardened with distress. " -- / "True! true! " I answer, "O ye years that part! / These things are chaned -- but is her heart, her heart? "