- Days gone by -

Of sunsets gazed 'til dewy morn

And lovely nights of fire light gone

Of broody days lost in thought

Their evenings through the lattice drop

Of loving words to caressed sweets

And thoughtless times with tinder beats

Of loving touch with passions deed

And romance forever filling need

Of minutes lost to lustful hearts

And decades full of earnest starts

Of love and life and lust and loss

And all those things we feel so oft

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