“I remember, I remember
How my childhood fleeted by,—
The mirth of its December
And the warmth of its July.”

—  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

"I remember, I remember" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 248. Compare: " I remember, I remember / The house where I was born", Thomas Hood, I remember, I remember.

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