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"BUT YE— SHALL I BEHOLD YOU 
 WHEN LEAVES FALL, 
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 MARKED the slow 
 
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 Out on the hills the 
 
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 |oftriumphantdawn. 
 
 A robin's song fell 
 
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 s long ago it rang 
 Iwhen June was here, 
 hen, suddenly, a few grey clouds were drawn 
 cross the sky ; and all the song was gone, 
 nd all the gold was quick to disappear, 
 hat day the sun seemed loth to come again ; 
 nd all day long the low wind spoke of rain, 
 Far off, beyond the hills ; and moaned, like one 
 Wounded, amongthe pines : as though the Earth, 
 Knowing some giant grief had come to birth, 
 ad wearied of the Summer and the Sun. 
 
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 IWATCHED the slow 
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 jsiowly the leaves fell from 
 ithe elms, and lay 
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 Iwind's strange way 
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 Iheard the wind's far call. 
 [The crimson vines that 
 ■clung along the wall 
 Grew thin as snow that lives on into May ; 
 Grey dawn, grey noon, — all things and hours 
 were grey. 
 
 When quietly the d? '•kness covered all. 
 And while no sunse\ Ramed across the west, 
 And no great moon rose where the hills were low. 
 The day passed out as if it had not been : 
 And so it seemed the year sank to its rest. 
 Remembering naught, desiring naught, — as though 
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 A day came when the frail 
 year paused and said : 
 ^Behold! a little while and 
 I am dead; 
 
 Wilt thou not choose, of all 
 the old dreams, one?" 
 Then dwelt I in a garden, 
 where the sun 
 Shone always, and the roses all were red ; 
 Par off, the great sea slept, and overhead. 
 Among the robins, matins had begun. 
 And I knew not at all it was a dream 
 Only, and that the year was near its close; 
 Garden and sunshine, robin-song and rose. 
 The half-heard murmur and the distant gleam 
 Of all the unvext sea, a little space 
 Were as a mist above the Autumn's face. 
 
 
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 to the sea 
 
 dwelt (it seemed) to watch 
 la pageant pass, — 
 jGreat Kings, their armour 
 Istrong with iron and hrass, 
 JYoung Queens, with yellow 
 
 lair bound wonderfully. 
 iFor love's sake, and because 
 lof love's decree. 
 Most went, I knew; and so the flowers and grass 
 Knew my steps also : yet I wept Alas, 
 Deeming the garden surely lost to me. 
 But as the days went over, and still our feet 
 Trod the warm, even places, I knew well 
 ( For I, as they, followed the close-heard beat 
 Of Love's wide wings who was her sentinel) 
 That here had Beauty built her citadel 
 And only we should reach her mercy-seat. 
 
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 East of the Sun I, too, seek 
 
 my desire! 
 
 My kisses, also,quicken 
 
 the well- wrought clay ! 
 
 And thou, Alcestis, lest my 
 
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 Be done, art glad to die ! Upon my pyre, 
 O Brynhild, let thine ashes feed the fire f 
 And, O thou Wood Sun, pray for me, I pray! 
 Yea, ye are mine ! Yet there remaineth one 
 Who maketh Summer-time of all the year. 
 Whose glory darkeneth the very sun. 
 For thee my sword was sharpened and my spear. 
 For thee my least poor deed was dreamed and done, 
 O Love, O Queen, O Golden Guenevere! 
 
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 [HEN, suddenly, I was 
 awake. Dead things 
 Were all about me and the 
 year was dead. 
 Save where the birches 
 grew, all leaves were shed 
 And nowhere fell the sound 
 of song or wings. 
 The fields I deemed were 
 graves of worshipped Kings 
 Had lost their bloom : no honey-bee now fed 
 Therein, and no white daisy bowed its head 
 To barken to the wind's love-murmurings. 
 Yet, by my dream, I know henceforth for me 
 This time of year shall hold some unknown grace 
 When the leaves fall, and shall be sanctified : 
 As April only comes for memory 
 Of him who kissed the veil from Beauty's face 
 That we might see, and passed at Easter-tide. 
 
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 MORTIS, written at Fredericton, New 
 Brunswick, on the third day of October, 
 MDCCCXCVI, by Francis Sherman, are privately 
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