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On Raglan Road of an autumn day
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I saw her first and knew
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That her dark hair would weave a snare
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That I might one day rue
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I saw the danger and I passed
D A
A-long the enchanted way
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And said let grief be a fallen leaf
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At the dawning of the day
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On Grafton Street in Novem-ber
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We tripped lightly along the ledge
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Of a deep ravine where can be seen
D A
The worth of passion's pledge
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The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
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And I not making hay
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Oh I loved too much and by such by such
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Is happiness thrown away
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I gave her gifts of the mind
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I gave her the secret signs
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That's known to the artists who have known
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The true gods of sound and stone
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And word and tint without stint
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I gave her poems to say
D G
With her own name there
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And her own dark hair
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Like clouds over fields of May
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On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
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I see her walking now
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A-way from me so hurrie-dly my reason must allow
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That I had loved not as I should
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A creature made of clay
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When the angel woos the clay
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He'll lose his wings at the dawn of day