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death poem

he'd even have his joke
see, from this counterfeit of him
old wine to drink
what do i owe to you
a gleam of gold in gloom and gray
shines the last age, the next with hope is seen
muffled drum's sad roll has beat
she might have known it in the earlier spring
calm as that second summer
all quiet along the potomac
which keeps

 



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