Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="THE_EVER_AND_EVER_SO_LONG_AGO" id="THE_EVER_AND_EVER_SO_LONG_AGO"></SPAN>The Ever and Ever so Long Ago</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">O, life has its seasons joyous and drear,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Its summer’s bloom, and its frost and snow,<br/></span> <span class="i0">But the fairest of all, I tell you, dear,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Was the sweet old spring of the long ago&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">The ever and ever so long ago!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">When we walked together among the flowers,<br/></span> <span class="i2">When the world with beauty was all aglow,<br/></span> <span class="i0">O, the rain and dew! O, the shine and showers<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of the sweet old spring of the long ago,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The ever and ever so long ago!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">A hunger for all of the past delight<br/></span> <span class="i2">Is stirred by the winds that softly blow,<br/></span> <span class="i0">O, spare but a thought, dear, from heaven to-night<br/></span> <span class="i2">For the sweet old spring of the long ago,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The ever and ever so long ago!<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p class="c"><ANTIMG src="images/deco.png" width-obs="25" alt="[Decorative image unavailable.]" /></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />