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When other beauty governs other lips,

And snowdrops come to strange and happy springs,

When seas renewed bear yet unbuilded ships,

And alien hearts know all familiar things,

When frosty nights bring comrades to enjoy

Sweet hours at hearths where we no longer sit,

When Liverpool is one with dusty Troy,

And London famed as Attica for wit …

How shall it be with you, and you, and you,

How with us all who have gone greatly here

In friendship, making some delight, some true

Song in the dark, some story against fear?

Shall song still walk with love, and life be brave,

And we, who were all these, be but the grave?