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DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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First Line: DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS MY LOVE AND I DID MEET
Last Line: BUT I WAS YOUNG AND FOOLISH, AND NOW AM FULL OF TEARS.
Subject(s): LOVE; YOUTH;
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet,
She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.



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