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First Line: Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet
Last Line: But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): An Old Song Resung;the Salley Gardens
Subject(s): Love; Youth


Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet,
She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.





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