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the child who threw away leaf after leaf
how wild, how witch-like weird that life should be
i shall see a star tonight
skies they were ashen and sober
as i lie roofed in, screened in
there was never a sound beside the wood but one
arched the flood
better than granite
in mournful numbers

 



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