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 THE SUMMERS COME AND GO. Bayard Taylor.

1. Now the days are brief and drear: Na - ked 2. Leave the clash - ing cym - bals mute! Pipe no 3. Where is Youth? He strayed a - way Thro' the

4. Yet a few more years to run, Wheel - ing

lies the new - born Year, In his crad - dle of the

more the hap - py flute! Sing no more that dan - cing

mead - ow flow'rs of May; Where is Love? The leaves that

sound in gloom and sun: Oth - er rap - tures, oth - er

snow; And the winds un - bri - dled blow, And the

rhyme Of the ro - se's har - vest time; Sing a

fell From his tryst-ing - bow'r, can tell. Wis - dom

woes,&mdash; Toil al - ter - nate with Re - pose: Then to