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October

A cold grey sea, a cold grey sky
And leafless swaying boughs,
A wind that wanders sadly by,
And moans about the house.

And in my lonely heart a cry
For days that went before;
For joys that fly, and hopes that die,
And the past that comes no more.


Edith Wharton