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Part IV	A
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Late Autumn	B
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They who die young are blest	C
Should we not envy such	D
They are Earth's happiest	E
God loved and favored much	D
They who die young are blest	C
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Sick and sad propped among pillows she sits at her window	F
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'Though the dog tooth violet come	B
With April showers	G
And the wild bees' music hum	B
About the flowers	G
We shall never wend as when	H
Love laughed leading us from men	H
Over violet vale and glen	H
Where the bob white piped for hours	G
And we heard the rain crow's drum	B
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Now November heavens are gray	I
Autumn kills	J
Every joy like leaves of May	I
In the rills	J
Still I sit and lean and listen	K
To a voice that has arisen	K
In my heart with eyes that glisten	K
Looking at the happy hills	J
Fading dark blue far away	I
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She gazes out upon the dying garden	K
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There rank death clutches at the flowers	J
And drags them down and stamps in earth	L
At morn the thin malignant hours	J
Shrill mouthed among the windy bowers	J
Clamor a bitter mirth	L
Or is it heart break that forlorn	M
Would so conceal itself in scorn	M
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At noon the weak white sunlight crawls	J
Like feeble feet once beautiful	N
From mildewed walks to mildewed walls	J
Down which the oozing moisture falls	J
Upon the cold toadstool	N
Faint on the leaves it drips and creeps	J
Or is it tears of one who weeps	J
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At night a misty blur of moon	O
Slips through the trees pale as a face	J
Of melancholy marble hewn	O
And like the phantom of some tune	O
Winds whisper in the place	J
Or is it love come back again	H
Seeking its perished joy in vain	P
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She muses upon the past	Q
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When in her cloudy chiton	P
Spring freed the frozen rills	J
And walked in rainbowed light on	P
The forests fields and hills	J
Beyond the world's horizon	P
That no such glory lies on	P
And no such hues bedizen	P
Love led us far from ills	J
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When Summer came a sickle	N
Stuck in her sheaf of gleams	J
And let the honey trickle	N
From out the beehives' seams	J
Within the violet blotted	R
Sweet book to us alloted	S
Whose lines are starry dotted	R
Love read us still his dreams	J
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Then Autumn came a liar	T
A fair faced heretic	U
In gypsy garb of fire	T
Throned on a harvest rick	U
Our lives that fate had thwarted	R
Stood pale and broken hearted	R
Though smiling when we parted	R
Where love to death lay sick	U
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Now is the Winter waited	R
The tyrant hoar and old	V
With death and hunger mated	S
Who counts his crimes like gold	V
Once more before forever	T
We part once more then never	T
Once more before we sever	T
Must I his face behold	V
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She takes up a book and reads	J
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What little things are those	J
That hold our happiness	J
A smile a glance a rose	J
Dropped from her hair or dress	J
A word a look a touch	D
These are so much so much	D
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An air we can't forget	W
A sunset's gold that gleams	J
A spray of migonette	W
Will fill the soul with dreams	J
More than all history says	J
Or romance of old days	J
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For of the human heart	W
Not brain is memory	X
These things it makes a part	W
Of its own entity	X
The joys the pains whereof	A
Are the very food of love	A
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She lays down the book	Y
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How true how true but words are weak	Z
In sympathy they give the soul	N
To music music that can speak	Z
All the heart's pain and dole	N
Still making us remember most	W
The love we've lost the love we've lost	W
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So weary am I and so fain	P
To see his face to feel his kiss	J
Thrill rapture through my soul again	P
There is no hell like this	J
Ah God my God were it not best	W
To give me rest to give me rest	W
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She writes to him to come to her	T
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Dead lie the dreams we cherished	W
The dreams we loved so well	N
Like forest leaves they perished	W
Like autumn leaves they fell	N
Alas that dreams so soon should pass	J
Alas Alas	J
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The stream lies bleak and arid	W
That once went singing on	P
The flowers once that varied	W
Its banks are dead and gone	P
Where these were once are thorns and thirst	W
The place is curst	W
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Come to me I am lonely	X
Forgive what you have heard	W
Come to me if for only	X
One last sad parting word	W
For one last word before the pall	N
Falls over all	N
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The day and hour are suited	W
For what I'd say to you	A2
Of love that I uprooted	W
But I have suffered too	A2
Come to me I would say good by	B2
Before I die	B2
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The wind rises the trees are agitated	W
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Woods that beat the wind with frantic	U
Gestures and drop darkly 'round	W
Acorns gnarled and leaves that antic	U
Wildly on the rustling ground	W
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Is it tragic grief that saddens	J
Through your souls this autumn day	W
Or the joy of death that gladdens	J
In exultance of decay	W
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Arrogant you lift defiant	W
Boughs against the moaning blast	W
That like some invisible giant	W
Wrapped in tumult thunders past	W
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Is it that in such insurgent	W
Fury tossed from tree to tree	X
You would quench the fiercely urgent	W
Pangs of some old memory	X
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As in toil and violent action	P
That still help them to forget	W
Mortals drown the dark distraction	P
And insistence of regret	W
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She muses in the gathering twilight	W
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Last night I slept till midnight then woke and far away	W
A cock crowed lonely and distant came mournful a watch dog's bay	W
But lonelier sadder the tedious old clock ticked on towards day	W
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And what a day remember those morns of summer and spring	C2
That bound our lives together each morn a wedding ring	C2
Of dew aroma and sparkle and flowers and birds a wing	C2
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Sweet morns when I strolled my garden awaiting him the rose	J
Expected too with blushes the Giant of Battle that grows	J
A bank of radiance and fragrance where the gate its shadow throws	J
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Not in vain did I wait departed summer amid your phlox	J
The powdery crystal and crimson of your hollow hollyhocks	J
Your fairy bells and poppies and the bee that in them rocks	J
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Cool clad 'neath the pendulous purple of the morning glory vine	P
By the jewel mine of the pansies and the snapdragons in line	P
I waited and there he met me whose heart was one with mine	P
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How warm was the breath of the garden when he met me there that day	W
How the burnished beetle and butterfly flew past us each a ray	W
The memory of those meetings still bears me far away	W
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Ah me when I think of the handfuls of little gold coins a mass	J
My bachelor's buttons scattered over the garden grass	J
And the marigolds that boasted their bits of burning brass	J
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More bitter I feel the autumn tighten 'round spirit and heart	W
And regret the days remembered as lost that stand apart	W
A chapter holy and sacred I read with eyes that smart	W
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Again to the woods a trysting by the watermill I steal	N
Where the lilies tumble together the madcap wind at heel	N
And meet him among the blossoms that the rocks and the trees conceal	N
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Or the wild cat grey of the meadows that the ox eyed daisies dot	W
Fawn eyed and tiger yellow that tangle a tawny spot	W
Of languid leopard beauty that dozes fierce and hot	W
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Ah back again with the present with winds that pinch and twist	W
The leaves in their peevish passion and whirl wherever they list	W
With the autumn hoary and nipping whose mausolean mist	W
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Builds wan a tomb for the daylight each morning shaggy with fog	D2
That fits grey wigs to the cedars and furs with frost each log	E2
That carpets with pearl the meadow and marbles brook and bog	D2
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Alone at dawn indifferent alone at eve I sigh	B2
And wait like the wind complaining complain and know not why	B2
But ailing and longing and pining because I do not die	B2
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How dull is that sunset dreary and cold and hard and dead	W
The ghost of the one last August that deeply rich and red	W
Like the wine of God's own vintage poured purple overhead	W
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But now I sit with the sighing dead dreams of a dying year	F2
Like the fallen leaves and the acorns am worthless and feel as sear	F2
With a withered soul and body whose heart is one big tear	G2
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As I stare from my window the daylight like a bravo its cloak puts on	P
The moon like a cautious lanthorn glitters and then is gone	P
Will he come to night will he answer Oh God would it were dawn	P
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He enters Taking her in his arms he speaks	J
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They said you were dying	C2
You shall not die	B2
Why are you crying	C2
Why do you sigh	B2
Cease that sad sighing	C2
Love it is I	B2
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All is forgiven	P
Love is not poor	H2
Though he was driven	P
Once from your door	I2
Back he has striven	P
To part nevermore	I2
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Will you remember	T
What I forget	W
Words each an ember	T
That you regret	W
Now in November	T
Now we have met	W
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What if love wept once	J
What though you knew	A2
What if he crept once	J
Pleading to you	A2
He never slept once	J
Nor was untrue	A2
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Often forgetful	N
Love may forget	W
Froward and fretful	N
Dear he will fret	W
Ever regretful	N
He will regret	W
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Life is completer	A2
Through his control	N
Living made sweeter	A2
Even through dole	N
Hearing Love's metre	A2
Sing in the soul	N
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Flesh may not hear it	W
Being impure	A2
And mind may fear it	W
May not endure	A2
But in the spirit	W
There we are sure	A2
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So when to morrow	A2
Ceases and we	X
Quit this we borrow	A2
Mortality	X
Love chastens sorrow	A2
So it can see	X
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Still you are weeping	C2
Why do you weep	J2
Are tears in keeping	C2
With joy so deep	J2
Gladness so sweeping	C2
Are you asleep	J2
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Speak to me dearest	W
Say it is true	A2
That I am nearest	W
Dearest to you	A2
Smile with those clearest	W
Eyes of grey blue	A2
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She smiles through her tears holding his hands she speaks	J
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They did not say I could not live beyond this weary night	W
But now I know that I shall die before the morning's light	W
How weak I am but you'll forgive me when I tell you how	K2
I loved you love you and the pain it is to leave you now	K2
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We could not marry See the flesh that clothes the soul of me	X
Ordained at birth a sacrifice to this heredity	X
Denied forbade Ah you have seen the bright spots in my cheeks	J
Flush hectic as before the night the west burns blood red streaks	J
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Consumption But I promised you my hand a thing forlorn	P
Of life diseased Oh God and so far better so forsworn	P
Oh I was jealous of your love But think if I had died	W
Ere babe of mine had come to be a solace at your side	W
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Had it been little then your grief when Heaven had made us one	P
In everything that's good on earth and then the good undone	P
No no and had I had a child what grief and agony	X
To know that blight born in him too against all help of me	X
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Just when we cherish him the most and youthful sunny pride	W
Sits on his curly front to see him die ere we have died	W
Whose fault Ah God not mine but his that ancestor who gave	A
Escutcheon to our humble house a Death's head and a Grave	A
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Beneath the pomp of those grim arms I live and may not move	A
Nor faith nor truth nor wealth avail to hurl them down nor love	A
How could I tell you this not then when all the world was spun	P
Of morning colors for our love to walk and dance upon	P
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I could not tell you how disease hid here a hideous germ	L2
Precedence slowly claiming and so slowly fixing firm	L2
And when I broke our plighted troth and would not tell you why	B2
I loved you thinking time enough when I have come to die	B2
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Draw off my rings and let my hands rest so the wretched cough	A
Will interrupt my feeble speech and will not be put off	A
Ah anyhow my anodyne is this to know that you	A2
Are near me love me Kiss me now as you were wont to do	A2
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And tell me you forgive me all and say you will forget	W
The sorrow of that breaking off the fever and the fret	W
Now set those roses near my face and tell me death's a lie	B2
Once it was hard for me to live now it is hard to die	B2