Song. "Of All The Days In Memory's List"
By John Clare
Of all the days in memory's list, Those motley banish'd days; Some overhung with sorrow's mist, Some gilt with hopeful rays; There is a day 'bove all the rest That has a lovely sound, There is a day I love the best-- When Patty first was found. When first I look'd upon her eye, And all her charms I met, There's many a day gone heedless by, But that I'll ne'er forget; I met my love beneath the tree, I help'd her o'er the stile, The very shade is dear to me That blest me with her smile. Strange to the world my artless fair, But artless as she be, She found the witching art when there To win my heart from me; And all the days the year can bring, As sweet as they may prove, There'll ne'er come one like that I sing, Which found the maid I love.
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