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Lament for a Classmate

I knew you when you were a child,
I don’t recall you,
Although I tried,

Perhaps you were sweet,
While I was wild,
The precious pet of the classroom kind,

An image of a smiling child,
I beheld your face,
Like my soul sighed,

I knew you when you were a child,
I don’t recall you,
Although I tried.
Written by CarlHalling (Carl Halling)
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Author's Note
'Lament for a Classmate' was penned in 2015 in response to the passing of a classmate whose name had remained with me over the decades, but of whom I had little memory; and it has remained more or less unchanged since.
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