Bendemeer's Stream
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There's a bower of roses
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by Bendemeer's stream,
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and the nightingale sings
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'round it all the day long.
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In the time of my childhood
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t'was like a sweet dream,
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To sit by the roses
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and hear the birds' song.
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That bow'r and its music I ne'er can forget,
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But oft when alone in the bloom of the year,
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I think "Is the nightingale singing there yet?
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Are the roses still bright by the calm Bendemeer?"
