All Lovely Things

Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) Gary Bachlund

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All love - ly things will have an end - ing,
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all youth, that's now o brave - ly spend - ing,

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will beg a pen - ny by and .

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Copyright © 2005 Gary Bachlund (BMI), Monrovia. All international rights reserved.
2 All Lovely Things

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the sweet - est flesh and flowers are rot - ten,

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 All Lovely Things 3

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and cob - webs tent the bright - est head.

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All love - ly things....

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Come back, true love! Sweet youth, re - turn!-- But
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time goes on, and will, un - heed - ing, though

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hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, and the wild days set

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true hearts bleed - - ing. Come

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back, true love! Sweet youth, re - main! But

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gold - en - rod and dai - sies wi - ther, and

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o - ver them blows au - tumn rain, they

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pass, they pass, and know not whi -

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- ther. All love - ly things...

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will fade and die.

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