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A Death-Day Recalled

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Beeny did not quiver,         Juliot grew not gray,     Thin Valency's river         Held its wonted way.     Bos seemed not to utter         Dimmest note of dirge,     Targan mouth a mutter         To its creamy surge.     Yet though these, unheeding,         Listless, passed the hour     Of her spirit's speeding,         She had, in her flower,     Sought and loved the places -         Much and often pined     For their lonely faces         When in towns confined.     Why did not Valency         In his purl deplore     One whose haunts were whence he         Drew his limpid store?     Why did Bos not thunder,         Targan apprehend     Body and breath were sunder         Of their former friend?

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