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The Fall of the Leaf

And Other Poems. By Charles Bucke ... Fourth Edition
  
  

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And does stern fate that lot deny?
Well! let no tear disgrace thine eye!

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The power, which rules this raging sea,
Is parent of futurity;
And of each wild and angry wave,
Can form as soft, as sweet, a grave,
As that where banks of violets grow;
Or that where groupes of roses blow.
Then let no tear disgrace thine eye!
Let tempests rage, and waves run high!
—They're heralds of eternity!