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A RIVER binds the lonely land	A
A river like a silver band	A
To crags and shores of yellow sand	A
It is a place where kildees cry	B
And endless marshes eastward lie	B
Whereon looks down a ghostly sky	B
A house stands gray and all alone	C
Upon a hill as dim of tone	C
And lonely as a lonely stone	C
There are no signs of life about	D
No barnyard bustle cry and shout	D
Of children who run laughing out	D
No crow of cocks no low of cows	E
No sheep bell tinkling under boughs	E
Of beech or song in garth or house	F
Only the curlew's mournful call	G
Circling the sky at evenfall	G
And loon lamenting over all	G
A garden where the sunflower dies	H
And lily on the pathway lies	H
Looks blindly at the blinder skies	H
And round the place a lone wind blows	I
As when the Autumn grieving goes	I
Tattered and dripping to its close	J
And on decaying shrubs and vines	K
The moon's thin crescent dwindling shines	K
Caught in the claws of sombre pines	K
And then a pale girl like a flower	L
Enters the garden for an hour	L
She waits beside a wild rose bower	L
There is no other one around	M
No sound except the cricket's sound	M
And far off baying of a hound	M
There is no fire or candle light	N
To flash its message through the night	N
Of welcome from some casement bright	N
Only the moon that thinly throws	I
A shadow on the girl and rose	I
As to its setting slow it goes	I
And when 'tis gone from shore and stream	O
There steals a mist that turns to dream	O
That place where all things merely seem	O
And through the mist there goes a cry	B
Not of the earth nor of the sky	B
But of the years that have passed by	B
And with the cry there comes the rain	P
Whispering of all that was in vain	P
At every door and window pane	P
And she who waits beside the rose	I
Hears with her heart a hoof that goes	I
Galloping afar to where none knows	I
And then she bows her head and weeps	Q
And suddenly a shadow sweeps	Q
Around and in its darkening deeps	Q
The house the girl the cliffs and stream	O
Are gone And they and all things seem	O
But phantoms merely in a dream	O

Madison Julius Cawein

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