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The Old Days

By James Whitcomb Riley

Topics: classic

The old days - the far days -      The overdear and fair! -     The old days - the lost days -      How lovely they were!     The old days of Morning,      With the dew-drench on the flowers     And apple-buds and blossoms      Of those old days of ours.     Then was the real gold      Spendthrift Summer flung;     Then was the real song      Bird or Poet sung!     There was never censure then, -      Only honest praise -     And all things were worthy of it      In the old days.     There bide the true friends -      The first and the best;     There clings the green grass      Close where they rest:     Would they were here? No; -      Would we were there!...     The old days - the lost days -      How lovely they were!

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James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American poet known as the "Hoosier Poet." His dialect poems—including "Little Orphant Annie" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin"—celebrate rural Indiana life and childhood nostalgia.

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