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Charles Lamb
1775-1834
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The Old Familiar Faces

1     I have had playmates, I have had companions,
2     In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days,
3     All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

4     I have been laughing, I have been carousing,
5     Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies,
6     All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

7     I loved a love once, fairest among women;
8     Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her --
9     All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

10   I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man;
11   Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly;
12   Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces.

13   Ghost-like, I paced round the haunts of my childhood.
14   Earth seemed a desart I was bound to traverse,
15   Seeking to find the old familiar faces.

16   Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother,
17   Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling?
18   So might we talk of the old familiar faces --

19   How some they have died, and some they have left me,
20   And some are taken from me; all are departed;
21   All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.


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