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WONDER-BOUND by JOSEPH SKIPSEY

First Line: THEY'D TOLD ME HE WAS HOAR AND OLD
Last Line: HAD HE TO ME LESS MERRY SEEM'D.
Subject(s): HAPPINESS; OLD AGE; JOY; DELIGHT;
They'd told me he was hoar and old,
They'd told me he was weak and worn,
And wonder-bound did I behold
Him merry as a summer morn.

Bound, wonder-bound; but when I found
Thine eyes upon his eyes had beam'd,
I only had been wonder-bound
Had he to me less merry seem'd.



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