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Like the ghost of a dear friend dead / Is Time long past. / A tone which is now forever fled, / A hope which is now forever past, / A love so sweet it could not last, / Was Time long past.
There were sweet dreams in the night / Of Time long past: / And, was it sadness or delight, / Each day a shadow onward cast / Which made us wish it yet might last- / That Time long past.
There is regret, almost remorse, / For Time long past. / 'Tis like a child's beloved corse / A father watches, till at last / Beauty is like remembrance, cast / From Time long past.