Bendemeers Stream

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[Verse 1]
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There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream
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And the nightingale sings round it all the day long
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In the time of my childhood it was like a sweet dream
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To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song


[Chorus]
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That bower and its music I'll never forget
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But oft when alone in the bloom of the year
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I think is the nightingale singing there yet
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Are the roses still bright by the calm Bendemeer


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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No the roses soon wither'd that hung o'er the wave
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But some blossoms were gather'd while freshly they shone
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And the dew was distill'd from their flowers they gave
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All the fragrance of summer when summer was gone


[Chorus]
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Thus memory draws from delight ere it dies
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An essence that breathes of it many a year
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Thus bright to my soul as it was then to my eyes
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Is that bower on the banks of the calm Bendemeer


[Outro]
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Are the roses still bright by the calm Bendemeer