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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.
  
LINES
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THE BRIDESMAID AND THE WATER-SPIRIT.
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HYMN TO THE MOON.

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ODE TO HER WHO WILL UNDERSTAND IT.

WRITTEN AT CRICKHOWEL, BRECONSHIRE.

I.

No bird in thicket, or in cage confined,
No hope, that fascinates the wearied mind;
No harp, by Nature's airy fingers strung,
Warble such music, as a woman's tongue!
Nor was a tongue of gentle woman-kind
Ever so sweetly mellowed to my mind.
Then take me,—lead me—up yon crested hill,
By shady forest, or by murmuring rill:
Beneath yon rock, or down yon valley deep;
Or lay me down in some cool Grot to sleep:—
Lead;—and I follow;—since to thee is given
The power of pointing out the road to Heaven!
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