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First Line: Then, 'twas the fancy of a fevered mind
Last Line: The bloom and odour of this day of days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Life; Youth


THEN, 'twas the fancy of a fevered mind
That told me I was cast from your regard?
I felt as one that being of late bestarred
With honours hath by high command resigned
Each glittering badge -- and now once more may bind
These on his breast! I was o'erworn and jarred;
I thought you for a moment cold and hard;
I know you now for ever just and kind.

Your written word brings life, and I can see
Those woodlands, and that terrace, whence you gaze
On the loved hills that were my early friends.
Too soon the hour of Youth's sweet turmoil ends;
But I shall hold in perpetuity
The bloom and odour of this day of days.





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