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THE GOLDEN DAYS OF MAKE-BELIEVE, by                    
First Line: In the golden days of make - believe
Last Line: One golden day of make-believe!
Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy


In the golden days of make-believe
Whate'er my fancy sought to weave
Before my magic eyes loomed real
As homespun from the spinning wheel;
With naught throughout the livelong day
But happy hours of carefree play,
All things were mine I could conceive,
In the golden days of make-believe.

At moment's notice I could be
Whate'er I chose, and plainly see
Things that my eyes observe no more
As in the lost days of yore,
When I was pirate, knight and king
And fared forth in bold tourneying,
But now, alas! I can't deceive
Myself, nor longer make believe.

As real as threads of life itself
Were tapestries I wove, and pelf
Did not my skein of thoughts defile;
All innocent of worldly guile,
I looked upon the world with eyes
That saw an endless paradise;
Ah, would that I could just retrieve
One golden day of make-believe!





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