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Death in the cold grey morning         Came to the man where he lay;         And the wind shivered, and the tree shuddered         And the dawn was grey.         And the face of the man was grey in the dawn,         And the watchers by the bed         Knew, as they heard the shaking of the leaves,         That the man was dead.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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