| She is dreaming
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| she is thinking
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| She la la la laaa remembers it all
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| Little old lady with face as grey, as a day in the life that was sweeter by far
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| with horses and coaches and crinolined ladies and
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| gentlemen walking and never a care
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| the holly of Christmas
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| the apples of summer
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| green leaves of springtime, the gold of the fall
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| and the bite of the frost on the first day of winter
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| the sound of the wind in the elm trees so tall
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| She is dreaming
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| she is thinking
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| She la la la laaa remembers it all
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| She sits by the hearth, and the face in the fire is
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| lined with creases of memory years the
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| cloth on the table is milk white and worn where the
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| teacups of ages left glitter brown tears
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| her long ago mother wore bible-black skirts and
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| lace as white, as the snow in the sky the
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| smell of the schoolroom and taste of the ink
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| shouting aloud at a chance passer-by
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| the searching for flowers games in the meadow
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| first touch of hands and an answering smile
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| she watches the sun spill a paint box of colours
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| sink in the west and it seems for a while
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| She is dreaming
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| she is thinking
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| She la la la laaa remembers it all |