Innocence Can Be Bliss

The love between us innocent and that was long ago Your shoulder length dark brown wavy hair and eyes blue as ripened sloe When you were barely nine years old and i was almost ten So many days, weeks, months and years in time have passed since then Resplendent in their flowers of Spring the old fields looked lush and green And primroses, bluebells and snowdrops bloomed on ditch of the bohreen In the old grove by the babbling stream by the roadway to town We laughed on the see saw swing slung from strong branch as we see sawed up and down In the innocence of our young love we never shared a kiss They were the best years of our lives since innocence can be bliss We went our separate ways in life never to meet again And only happy memories of you with me remain In my memory you remain young and beautiful you never aged a day Though that was many years ago in an old grove far away.