Softly in the glow of moonlight
`Neath the canopy of stars
There to ponder in the silence –
Still, within the passing hours
Wistful thoughts of precious childhood
Drift through valleys of my mind
Times when all the world was boundless –
Oh so free and unconfined
How I danced through fields of yellow
Skipped along the leafy ways
Breathing in the joys of springtime
Blissful in those tender days
Thus unfraught by life`s deceptions
Youth and innocence my guide
Seeming then that all was splendid –
In a pure world to abide
Promises of dreams unfolding
(All illusions yet concealed)
Looking to such bright tomorrows
As believed to be revealed
But now wise, and in the evening –
At the sunset of my life
There I see the truth before me
All the lies, the pain, the strife
Yet I will not fall in sorrow
For all yearning now shall cease
Eyes now fixed upon the closing
Ever then to be at peace
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