543. The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb
b"C Lamb read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n----------------------------------------\\n\\n The Old Familiar Faces\\nby Charles Lamb (1775\\u20131834)\\n \\nI have had playmates, I have had companions, \\nIn my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days - \\nAll, all are gone, the old familiar faces. \\n\\nI have been laughing, I have been carousing, \\nDrinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies - \\nAll, all are gone, the old familiar faces. \\n\\nI loved a Love once, fairest among women: \\nClosed are her doors on me, I must not see her - \\nAll, all are gone, the old familiar faces. \\n\\nI have a friend, a kinder friend has no man: \\nLike an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly; \\nLeft him, to muse on the old familiar faces. \\n\\nGhost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood, \\nEarth seem'd a desert I was bound to traverse, \\nSeeking to find the old familiar faces. \\n\\nFriend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, \\nWhy wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? \\nSo might we talk of the old familiar faces - \\n\\nHow some they have died, and some they have left me, \\nAnd some are taken from me; all are departed - \\nAll, all are gone, the old familiar faces. \\n \\nFirst aired: 4 December 2007\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2007"