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The Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille.
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  Decked with flowers a simple hearse
  To the church-yard forth they bear;
  Village girls in robes of snow
  Follow, weeping as they go;
  Nowhere was a smile that day,
No, ah no! for each one seemed to say:—

“ The roads should mourn and be veiled in gloom,
So fair a corpse shall leave its home!
Should mourn and should weep, ah, well-away!
So fair a corpse shall pass to-day!