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THIS YEAR - NEXT YEAR by ANONYMOUS

First Line: THIS YEAR - NEXT YEAR - SOMETIME - NEVER
Last Line: NEVER - EARTH SAY YET
Subject(s): HOLIDAYS;NEW YEAR;
THIS year -- next year -- sometime -- never,
Gayly did she tell;
Rose-leaf after rose-leaf ever
Eddied round and fell.

This year -- and she blushed demurely;
That would be too soon;
He could wait a little, surely,
'T is already June.

Next year -- that's almost too hurried,
Laughingly said she;
For when once a girl is married,
She no more is free.

Sometime -- that is vague -- long waiting
Many a trouble brings;
'Twixt delaying and debating
Love might use its wings.

Never -- word of evil omen,
And she sighed, heigh-ho, --
'T is the hardest lot for women
Lone through life to go.

Next year -- early in the May-time,
Was to be the day;
Looked she sweetly toward that gay time
Gleaming far away.

Never -- fair with bridal flowers
Came that merry spring;
Ere those bright and radiant hours
She had taken wing.

This year -- hearts are bound by sorrow;
Next year -- some forget;
Sometime -- comes that golden morrow;
Never -- earth say yet.



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