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Show nn TTTSTOTtT By Bcrton Bralcy When von were seven and I was eight. We used i i meet ;tt your front-yard gate. And I carried your books to school for you, Though the boys would tease me a lot, 1 know; But I bore their jeers with a courage stout, about, i And I felt, with a sort of a warm delight. I For you mere worth being teased I You were my lady, and I your knight. i When T was twenty and you nineteen, The days flowed by In a way serene, I With comradeship as our slender tether, I We danced and chatted and walked together; Until, one night. In a whirl of bliss. Our young lips met in a long, long kiss, j And we knew, .as the wonderful moon shone bright. I You were my lady. :-.nd I your knight. ' You're slxly-two and I'm sixty-three, But. whenever I look at you I see The girl of seen the lass, nineteen. I And my heart still leaps with an ardor keen; I know the thrill that I used to know When I squired you pridefully, long ago, And now. as then though our hair is white, You are my lady and I your knight' |