Regret

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="b2dfd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>welcome to the Prebble family website</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="welcome to the Prebble family website"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Neil"><U><B><IMG SRC="af50e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id233.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Turriff school reunion"><U><B><IMG SRC="af60e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meaning"><U><B><IMG SRC="af70e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="b2ed2b03.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Regret</I><I>s</I></div> <div> Rummaging in the locker of my life</div> <div> I found us in a corner set apart</div> <div> A precious memory preserved unchanged</div> <div> Locked now forever deep within my heart</div> <bR> <div> Back in those golden days when time stood still</div> <div> One long and pleasant summer without care</div> <div> We met and in that moment came to know</div> <div> A joy that only we will ever share</div> <bR> <div> Those days together - all too short a time</div> <div> Unspoiled by age or habit in recall</div> <div> One briefly fleeting instant in two lives</div> <div> That touched and parted only to enthrall</div> <bR> <div> Like some old favourite movie from the past</div> <div> That never fails to entertain the mind</div> <div> Flickering and dancing in the memory</div> <div> Forever in fast forward or rewind</div> <bR> <div> Pray God that in some parallel universe</div> <div> Where we are young again but without fear</div> <div> We seize the chance that once we turned aside</div> <div> And live the life that was denied us here</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>