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Show I HITMEMBEn, I REMEMBEH. I remember. I remember. The house where I was born. The llttto window where the sun Came peeping In nt morn. He never can a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a da). But now I often wish the night Had borne in) breath awn) I remember, I remember. The rsTees red and white, Tho violets anl tho III) -cups, Those flowers mide of tlshtl The lilacs where the rohln built. And where mv brother set The laburnum on his birthday Tho tree Is living setl I remember, I rfmember. Where I wns used to swing And thought the air must rush aa fresh To swallows on the wing, My spirit flew In feathers then. That Is so heavs now. And summer pool! could hardly cool The fever of ms brow I remember, I remember. The fir trees dark and high: I used to think their slender tops Were clcse scalnst the skyj It was childish Isnorance, But now tls little Jo To know I'm farther off from hfaven Than when I was a bo), Thomas Hood |