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Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, I laughed and danced, I talked and sung, And proud of health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, nor pain: Oh! then in those light hours of glee, I thought the world was made for me. But when the hour of trial came, And sickness shook my feeble frame, And folly’s gay pursuits were o’er, And I could sing and dance no more, Oh! then I thought bow sad ’twould be Were only this world made for me.
Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, I laughed and danced, I talked and sung, And proud of health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, nor pain: Oh! then in those light hours of glee, I thought the world was made for me. But when the hour of trial came, And sickness shook my feeble frame, And folly’s gay pursuits were o’er, And I could sing and dance no more, Oh! then I thought bow sad ’twould be Were only this world made for me.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Princess Amelia (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 689 · printed citation: Princess Amelia · subject: WORLD
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