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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DYING. Beneath the eye of evening, plain The sleepy hills are lying: Fields are green from recent rain, Green the rugged grassy lane. And how have I wrought on, who die, Now die, wrung brain in vain Striving to find them living ! Dying, Look, they come again? The common, and the children playing With hoop and bat and bow, the straying Lambs beyond. So pass them by: We left them; and we leave them; try For flowers this rugged grassy lane. Look, your flowers again ! Why, the flowers you wore for hours? Not one withered?as I gave them You, who lost them. I, who have them, I, who brook no coy gainsaying, Now have all: the children playing? All, the sun, the grass, the flowers; Time?its minutes, hours remain: I feel the minutes throb again; Moans the bee, and thrills the bird; Glimmer sunlit grass and flower; DYING. Flies the white cloud fringed with rain. So you droop your eyelids lower, And we have no whisper heard: So we feel no pain. And we shut the prison house; Outside?world, and inside?brain, Weary world, dark, onerous ! All is here? A sunset clear: Eyes clear of scorn, grass fresh with rain. We'll not wake again ! 1846. A WARM FEBRUARY. Over the evening-misty hills White villas in the stare of the sun: The heads of elms and chestnuts dun Take tawny fire, each one by one; February is not done, Although the grass is soft and green, And warm air blows and flows between These blind bare arms that trees uprear To feel for summer somewhere near. Sitting upon the stile, I fain Would fancy summer up the lane, Where both the hedges rusty grey With blackthorn bushes say me nay. The winter time has left its stain Of snow upon the thorn and rain Upon the pales. Like black hairs turning Grey, it has a look of yearning Back to youth ...

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