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Once more on the beach with the shifting clouds o'er me / (Like the friends of a day), / And the sea all unchanged, like a true friend before me, / How the years flow away, / How the summers go by.
The shifting clouds o'er me, the shifting sands under; / Why need it seem strange, / Why need I feel bitter, and why should I wonder / That hearts, too, should change / As the summers go by.
Down here is the path where we wandered together, / 'Neath the midsummer moon. / Her love was sweet as the sweet summer weather, / And left us as soon, / And the summers go by.
The bathers laugh loud in the surf over yonder. / If one should dive deep, / And rise not -- no more need he suffer or ponder / O'er losses, or weep, / But sink low and sleep / While the summers go by.