I cannot sing the old songs now! / It is not that I deem them low; / 'Tis that I can't remember how / They go. -C. S. Calverley

 

I cannot sing the old songs now! / It is not that I deem them low; / 'Tis that I can't remember how / They go.


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Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

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I cannot sing the old songs now! / It is not that I deem them low; / 'Tis that I can't remember how / They go. -C. S. Calverley
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Meaning, however, is no great matter.

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