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Sonnet: - XXII.

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Dark, dismal day - the first of many such!     The wind is sighing through the plaintive trees,     In fitful gusts of a half-frenzied woe;     Affrighted clouds the hand might almost touch,     Their black wings bend so mournfully and low,     Sweep through the skies like night-winds o'er the seas.     There is no chirp of bird through all the grove,     Save that of the young fledgeling rudely flung     From its warm nest; and like the clouds above     My soul is dark, and restless as the breeze     That leaps and dances over Couchiching.     Soon will the last duett be sweetly sung;     But through the years to come our hearts will ring     With memories, as dear as time and love can bring.

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