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DEAD LEAVES
The breaking dead leaves 'neath my feetA plaintive melody repeat,Recalling shattered hopes that lieAs relics of a bygone sky.
Again I thread the mazy past,Back where the mounds are scattered fast—Oh! foolish tears, why do you start,To break of dead leaves in the heart?

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