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Here's a better way of arranging the words:
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I loved when I was young
The girls in all the bars,
And going home I hung
My hat upon the stars.
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(This delightful piece is quoted in Farewell My Youth, an autobiographical
reverie by Arnold Bax, who regretted he was unable to recollect or locate its
author. My brother Graham writes, however: "Browsing through a copy of The
Irish Review for February 1913 recently [...] I discovered the source of this
masterpiece. It is quoted on p. 669 in a review of a collection of verse called
Wine and Roses by the late Irish-Australian poet Victor J Daly (published by
Angus and Robertson); 'He was a good poet, God rest him!', concluded the
reviewer.") |
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