Days of Sun and Moon by Patricia Morse-McNeely

Days of Sun and Moon
Patricia Morse-McNeely

Remember, O remember
Those days when we were free
With all the world before us
When you were young with me
(Long days of sun and moon,
Golden happiness, sweet-salted,
Gone away too soon.)

Remember, O remember
Desperate growing years
When life was swiftly flowing
On laughter and our tears?
(Warm days of sun and moon,
Golden happiness, sweet-salted,
Gone away too soon.)
Remember, O remember
Now we are growing old
The poignant wild promises
When bells of war were tolled?
(Deep days of sun and moon,
Golden happiness, sweet-salted,
Gone away too soon.)
Remember, O remember
We whispered as we wept
With lips murmuring mad vows,
Long-lost and never kept?
(Lost days of sun and moon,
Golden happiness, sweet-salted,
Gone away too soon.)

Remember, O remember
When your day's work is done,
And love me just a little
Beneath Life's setting sun --
(Lost days of sun and moon,
Golden happiness, sweet-salted,
Gone, alas, too soon.)
(1980)

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