<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390939" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Long ago</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I once knew all the birds that came<br> And nested in our orchard trees;<br>For every flower I had a name--<br> My friends were woodchucks, toads, and bees;<br>I knew where thrived in yonder glen<br> What plants would soothe a stone-bruised toe--<br>Oh, I was very learned then;<br> But that was very long ago!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew the spot upon the hill<br> Where checkerberries could be found,<br>I knew the rushes near the mill<br> Where pickerel lay that weighed a pound!<br>I knew the wood,--the very tree<br> Where lived the poaching, saucy crow,<br>And all the woods and crows knew me--<br> But that was very long ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And pining for the joys of youth,<br> I tread the old familiar spot<br>Only to learn this solemn truth:<br> I have forgotten, am forgot.<br>Yet here's this youngster at my knee<br> Knows all the things I used to know;<br>To think I once was wise as he--<br> But that was very long ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know it's folly to complain<br> Of whatsoe'er the Fates decree;<br>Yet were not wishes all in vain,<br> I tell you what my wish should be:<br>I'd wish to be a boy again,<br> Back with the friends I used to know;<br>For I was, oh! so happy then--<br> But that was very long ago!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390939" data-title="Long ago de Eugene Field" data-description="I once knew all the birds that came And nested in our orchard trees; For every flower I had a name-- My friends were woodchucks, toads, and bees; I knew where thrived in yonder glen What plants would soothe a stone-bruised toe-- Oh, I was very ..."></div> </div> </div>

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