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Ah, we fondly cherish
Faded things
That had better perish.
Memory clings
To each leaf it saves.
Chilly winds are blowing.
It will soon be snowing
On our graves.
--
Gather Leaves and Grasses, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

John Henry Boner

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