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A LAMENT.

IT was a summer eve

Beside a summer sea,

And a meeting and a parting

Were destined there to be.

It was a winter night

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Beneath the starry sky,

And words of love and longing

Borne on the winds went by.

I buried there my heart

Where the waves forever die,

Where the trodden leaves are silent,

O years, forgotten lie.

W.

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