The Exchange

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1. EXCHANGE Today your things depart. Your faience cup Fell off the table at sunrise and cracked. Your old grey dog did […]...
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21. Ask Me No More Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea; The cloud may stoop from heaven and take the shape, […]...
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37. Blindness OUR true hearts are forever lonely: A wistfulness is in our thought: Our lights are like the dawns which only […]...
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40. 1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain, From north and south the sign returns […]...