“Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
Source: Poems of Christina Rossetti
“O thrush, your song is passing sweet
But never a song that you have sung,
Is half so sweet as thrushes sang
When my dear Love and I were young.”
Other Days, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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