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Yes, summer suns again shall shine,
And verdant woods and laughing flowers
Shall deck thy form, O earth! and twine
Their wreaths around thy leafless bowers.

But who that saw thee fade, may see
Thy bright return of beauty then?
It recks not, if they die like thee,
To bloom in purer life again.

E.

October 27, 1834.