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WHEN GREEN LEAVES COME AGAIN.
SONG.
- WHEN green leaves come again, my love,
- When green leaves come again,—
- Why put on such a cloudy face,
- When green leaves come again?
- “Ah, this spring will be like the last,
- Of promise false and vain;
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- And summer die in winter’s arms
- Ere green leaves come again.
- “So slip the seasons—and our lives;
- ’T is idle to complain:
- But yet I sigh, I scarce know why,
- When green leaves come again.”
- Nay, lift up thankful eyes, my sweet!
- Count equal, lost and gain:
- Because, as long as the world lasts,
- Green leaves will come again.
- For, sure as earth lives under snows,
- And Love lives under pain,
- ’T is good to sing with everything,
- “When green leaves come again.”
