The Old Familiar Faces
Charles Lamb
1775 to 1834
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I have had playmates, I have had companions,
In ______ days of childhood, in my joyful school-days,
All, all ______ gone, the old familiar faces.
I have been laughing, ______ have been carousing,
Drinking late, sitting late, with my ______ cronies,
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
______ loved a love once, fairest among women;
Closed are ______ doors on me, I must not see her —
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
I have ______ friend, a kinder friend has no man;
Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly;
Left him, to muse ______ the old familiar faces.
Ghost-like, I paced round the ______ of my childhood.
Earth seemed a desert I was ______ to traverse,
Seeking to find the old familiar faces.
______ of my bosom, thou more than a brother,
Why ______ not thou born in my father's dwelling?
So might ______ talk of the old familiar faces —
How some ______ have died, and some they have left me,
And ______ are taken from me; all are departed;
All, all ______ gone, the old familiar faces.