Intro
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Verse 1
   C 
On summer afternoons I sit 
   D                    G 
Quiescent by you in the park 
    C 
And idly watch the sunbeams guild 
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And tint the ash trees' bark___ 
 
Verse 2
 
Or else I watch the squirrels frisk 
 
And chatter in the grassy lane 
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And all the while I mark your voice 
        Am 
Breaking with love and pain 
 
Verse 3
  C 
I know a woman who would give 
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Her chance of heaven to take my place 
   C      
To see the love-light in your eyes 
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The love-glow on your face___ 
 
Verse 4
 
And there's a man whose lightest word 
 
Can set my chilly blood afire 
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Fulfilment of his least behest 
       Am 
Defines my life's desire 
 
Verse 5
    G 
But he will none of me, Nor I 
 
Of you, Nor you of her, 'Tis said 
    C 
The world is full of jests like these 
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I wish that I were dead____