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TIME by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON

First Line: WHEN I THINK SOMETIMES OF OLD GRIEFS I HAD
Last Line: AND THE OLD GRIEF SO LIGHT.
Subject(s): GRIEF; SORROW; SADNESS;
WHEN I think sometimes of old griefs I had,
Of sorrows that once seemed too harsh to bear,
And youth's resolve to never more be glad,
I laugh -- and do not care.

When I think sometimes of the joy I knew,
The gay, glad laughter ere my heart grew wise,
The trivial happiness that seemed so true --
The tears are in my eyes.

Time -- Time the cynic -- how he mocks us all!
And yet to-day I can but think him right:
Ah heart, the old joy is so tragical
And the old grief so light.



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