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Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, not spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
--
Spring and Fall, lines 5-9

 

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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