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Ichabod

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Gone is the glory from the hills,          The autumn sunshine from the mere,          Which mourns for the declining year     In all her tributary rills.     A sense of change obscurely chills          The misty twilight atmosphere,          In which familiar things appear     Like alien ghosts, foreboding ills.     The twilight hour a month ago          Was full of pleasant warmth and ease,                 The pearl of all the twenty-four.     Erelong the winter gales shall blow,          Erelong the winter frosts shall freeze--                 And oh, that it were June once more!

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"Gone is the glory from the hills,..."

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