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IF ONLY WE HAD TIME TO SPARE.&quot; 13 &quot;IF ONLY WE HAD TIME TO SPARE.&quot; IF only we had time to spare To taste the glories of the Spring, How good to leave this noise and glare, And breathe the blessèd country air, And hear the songs the wild birds sing, If only we had time to spare !

Then you should stretch you at my feet And read aloud, and I should sew, And now and then our eyes might meet, And we might murmur phrases sweet And blissful hours would come and go If only we had time to spare !

But as you toil, and as I pray For happier and idler hours, Noon follows dawn, night follows day, I look, and lo, your locks are gray And Winter withers up our flowers Ere ever we have time to spare !