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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LONDON BRIDGE, by DANIEL IRVING GROSS
First Line: I hear an old song of my youth
Last Line: And make us friends around the world.
Subject(s): Bridges
First Line: I hear an old song of my youth
Last Line: And make us friends around the world.
Subject(s): Bridges
I hear an old song of my youth,
"London Bridge is falling down,"
And think of those who now are gone
Forever from my childhood town.
The lips that smiled in merry days
To melody of that sweet song,
Are crumbled into silent dust,
Or again with the agin throng.
'Tis good to see thee, stately bridge,
Full strong and steady in the years,
But many, looking on thee now
Are seeing through a mist of tears,
For backward far doth memory dream
To many a modest little town,
Where carefree boys and maidens played
"London Bridge is falling down."
As arches reach from shore to shore,
O'er moving waters wide unfurled,
God bridge all hearts in every land,
And make us friends around the world.
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