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 It’s good to have the trees again, the singing of the breeze again,
 * It’s good to see the lilacs bloom as lovely as of old.

It’s good that we can feel again the touch of beauties real again,
 * For hearts and minds, of sorrow now, have all that they can hold.

The roses haven’t changed a bit, nor have the peonies stranged a bit,
 * They bud and bloom the way they did before the war began.

The world is upside down today, there’s much to make us frown today
 * And gloom and sadness everywhere beset the path of man.

But now the lilacs bloom again and give us their perfume again
 * And now the roses smile at us and nod along the way;