<h2><SPAN name="Song76" id="Song76"></SPAN>Song.</h2>
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<span class="i0">Joy came in youth as a humming-bird,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">(Sing hey! for the honey and bloom of life!)<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And it made a home in my summer bower<br/></span>
<span class="i0">With the honeysuckle and the sweet-pea flower.<br/></span>
<span class="i2">(Sing hey! for the blossoms and sweets of life!)<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Joy came as a lark when the years had gone,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">(Ah! hush, hush still, for the dream is short!)<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And I gazed far up to the melting blue<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Where the rare song dropped like a golden dew.<br/></span>
<span class="i2">(Ah! sweet is the song tho' the dream be short!)<br/></span>
<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</SPAN></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Joy hovers now in a far-off mist,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">(The night draws on and the air breathes snow!)<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And I reach, sometimes, with a trembling hand<br/></span>
<span class="i0">To the red-tipped cloud of the joy-bird's land.<br/></span>
<span class="i2">(Alas! for the days of the storm and the snow!)<br/></span>
<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</SPAN></span></div>
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