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The Fall of the Leaf

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

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“By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Fancy comes, at twilight grey,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Pity does awhile repair
To mourn, a weeping pilgrim, there.”