I Do Never Wish

In truth I can say I was a happy boy And my boyhood years were years I did enjoy And though happy memories of my youth I retain I do never wish for to be young again I never thought then of life's battle ahead For my joys of life then now within me seems dead Our innocence long gone before our life's prime And the bloom of our youth does not last a life-time To me Nature then was a marvellous thing On the roadside hedgerow the bullfinch did sing The Spring in the fields spread her wildflowers of May And the cuckoo she called in the wood all the day Life's battle ahead and our youth went too fast And only in memory we go to the past.