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REMORSE.


I REMEMBER when I was a boy
That a grown girl wanted to kiss me;
And I struggled, was angry, and shy,
And ran off when she tried to caress me.

And I've thought of that day through the years;
(What a moral, my friend, lies in this!)
Under every sweet leaf that appears
Lurks a pain for the loss of that kiss.