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In the Green and Gallant Spring

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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In the green and gallant Spring, Love and the lyre I thought to sing, And kisses sweet to give and take By the flowery hawthorn brake.

Now is russet Autumn here, Death and the grave and winter drear, And I must ponder here aloof While the rain is on the roof.

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