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Last Hours

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A gray day and quiet,     With slow clouds of gray,     And in dull air a cloud that falls, falls     All day.     The naked and stiff branches     Of oak, elm, thorn,     In the cold light are like men aged and     Forlorn.     Only a gray sky,     Grass, trees, grass again,     And all the air a cloud that drips, drips,     All day.     Lovely the lonely     Bare trees and green grass--     Lovelier now the last hours of slow winter     Slowly pass.

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