The Sylphs of the Seasons, with other poems

Allston, Washington (1779-1843)

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And last, as sunk the setting sun,
And Evening with her shadows dun
The gorgeous pageant past,
'Twas then of life a mimic shew,
Of human grandeur here below,
Which thus beneath the fatal blow
Of Death must fall at last,

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