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The Fall of the Leaf

And Other Poems. By Charles Bucke ... Fourth Edition
Bucke, Charles (1781-1846)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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THE FALL OF THE LEAF:
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LINES
  
ODE
  
ODE TO JULIA;
  
ODE TO CLAUDE SPENCER, ESQ.;
  
ODE. ROCHEFORD'S RESOLUTION.
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ODE
  
ODE TO HER WHO WILL UNDERSTAND IT.
  
ODE
  
ODE.
  
HYMN TO THE VIRGIN:
  
THE EOLIAN HARP.
  
CANZONET.
  
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THE BRIDESMAID AND THE WATER-SPIRIT.
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HYMN TO THE MOON.

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VIII.

To be contented with an humble lot
Is the best wisdom, that the mind can shew.
Give me a cottage on some towering cliff,
'Neath which the billows in wild fury rage;
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And if fair Julia and my faithful friend
Adorn its hearth—why—let the tempest rage,
And Fame and Fortune travel where they will.
Beneath yon cliffs thou might'st with joy recount
The many studious journies of thy youth;
Once more enjoy the vineyards of the Loire,
The olived glens of Italy, and vales,
The fragrant vales,—of proud, romantic Spain.
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