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" The remembrance of youth is a sigh." 



Arabic Proverb. 



Alas ! we must weep over moments departed 



And look on the past with a sorrowful eye, 

 For who, roving on through the world weary hearted, 



But feels " the remembrance of youth is a sigh V 



Though earth still may wear all its verdure and flowers, 



Though our path- way may smile 'neath a bright summer sky, 



Yet the serpent lies hid in life's sunniest bowers, 

 And still " the remembrance of youth is a sigh." 



Then surely the heart whose best pleasures have vanished, 

 As spring-birds depart ere the winter draws nigh, 



The bosom whence hope's sweet illusions are banished, 

 Must know " the remembrance of youth is a sigh." 



