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One old lady kept a sighing; Said she wasn't young, Didn't look as sweet's she used to, Times were all unstrung; Troubles doubled aches, and favors Went a flying past, Wrinkles stung like thorns, and eyesight Kept a failing fast. One old lady kept a saying Life was like the spring, Brighter blossoms always coming, Birds around to sing; Troubles came—and went; she let 'em, Didn't count the throng. Thanked the Lord 'most every morning She'd been young so long!
One old lady kept a sighing; Said she wasn't young, Didn't look as sweet's she used to, Times were all unstrung; Troubles doubled aches, and favors Went a flying past, Wrinkles stung like thorns, and eyesight Kept a failing fast. One old lady kept a saying Life was like the spring, Brighter blossoms always coming, Birds around to sing; Troubles came—and went; she let 'em, Didn't count the throng. Thanked the Lord 'most every morning She'd been young so long!
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Jessie M. Shaw
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 393; printed byline: Jessie M. Shaw; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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