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Play that you are mother dear, / And play that papa is your beau; / Play that we sit in the corner here, / Just as we used to, long ago. / Playing so, we lovers two / Are just as happy as we can be, / And I'll say "I love you" to you, / And you say "I love you" to me! / "I love you" we both shall say, / All in earnest and all in play.
Or, play that you are that other one / That some time came, and went away; / And play that the light of years agone / Stole into my heart again to-day! / Playing that you are the one I knew / In the days that never again may be, / I'll say "I love you" to you," / And you say "I love you" to me! / "I love you! " my heart shall say / To the ghost of the past come back to-day!