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The Trees At Night

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Under vague silver moonlight     The trees are lovely and ghostly,     In the pale blue of the night     There are few stars to see.     The leaves are green still, but brown-blent:     They stir not, only known     By a poignant delicate scent     To the lonely moon blown.     The lonely lovely trees sigh     For summer spent and gone:     A few homing leaves drift by,     Poor souls bewildered and wan.

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