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I	A
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FALLEN with autumn's falling leaf	B
Ere yet his summer's noon was past	C
Our friend our guide our trusted chief	B
What words can match a woe so vast	C
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And whose the chartered claim to speak	D
The sacred grief where all have part	E
Where sorrow saddens every cheek	D
And broods in every aching heart	E
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Yet Nature prompts the burning phrase	F
That thrills the hushed and shrouded hall	G
The loud lament the sorrowing praise	F
The silent tear that love lets fall	G
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In loftiest verse in lowliest rhyme	H
Shall strive unblamed the minstrel choir	I
The singers of the new born time	H
And trembling age with outworn lyre	J
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No room for pride no place for blame	K
We fling our blossoms on the grave	L
Pale scentless faded all we claim	K
This only what we had we gave	L
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Ah could the grief of all who mourn	M
Blend in one voice its bitter cry	A
The wail to heaven's high arches borne	M
Would echo through the caverned sky	A
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II	A
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O happiest land whose peaceful choice	N
Fills with a breath its empty throne	O
God speaking through thy people's voice	N
Has made that voice for once His own	O
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No angry passion shakes the state	P
Whose weary servant seeks for rest	Q
And who could fear that scowling hate	P
Would strike at that unguarded breast	Q
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He stands unconscious of his doom	R
In manly strength erect serene	S
Around him Summer spreads her bloom	R
He falls what horror clothes the scene	S
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How swift the sudden flash of woe	T
Where all was bright as childhood's dream	U
As if from heaven's ethereal bow	V
Had leaped the lightning's arrowy gleam	U
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Blot the foul deed from history's page	W
Let not the all betraying sun	X
Blush for the day that stains an age	W
When murder's blackest wreath was won	X
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III	A
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Pale on his couch the sufferer lies	Y
The weary battle ground of pain	Z
Love tends his pillow Science tries	Y
Her every art alas in vain	Z
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The strife endures how long how long	A2
Life death seem balanced in the scale	B2
While round his bed a viewless throng	A2
Await each morrow's changing tale	B2
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In realms the desert ocean parts	C2
What myriads watch with tear filled eyes	Y
His pulse beats echoing in their hearts	C2
His breathings counted with their sighs	Y
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Slowly the stores of life are spent	D2
Yet hope still battles with despair	E2
Will Heaven not yield when knees are bent	D2
Answer O thou that hearest prayer	E2
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But silent is the brazen sky	A
On sweeps the meteor's threatening train	Z
Unswerving Nature's mute reply	A
Bound in her adamantine chain	Z
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Not ours the verdict to decide	F2
Whom death shall claim or skill shall save	L
The hero's life though Heaven denied	F2
It gave our land a martyr's grave	L
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Nor count the teaching vainly sent	D2
How human hearts their griefs may share	E2
The lesson woman's love has lent	D2
What hope may do what faith can bear	E2
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Farewell the leaf strown earth enfolds	Y
Our stay our pride our hopes our fears	Y
And autumn's golden sun beholds	Y
A nation bowed a world in tears	Y

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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