How sweet the music sounded
That summer long ago,
When you were by my side, love,
To list its gentle flow.
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GOD has his plans, and what if we
With our sight be too blind to see
Their full fruition; cannot he,
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OUT in de night a sad bird moans,
An', oh, but hit's moughty lonely;
Times I kin sing, but mos' I groans,
Fu' oh, but hit's moughty lonely!
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