In Memoriam D. O. M.

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Chestnut candles are lit again For the dead that died in spring: Dead lovers walk the orchard ways, And the dead cuckoos sing. Is it they who live and we who are dead? Hardly the springtime knows For which today the cuckoo calls, And the white blossom blows. Listen and hear the happy wind Whisper and lightly pass: 'Your love is sweet as hawthorn is, Your hope green as the grass. 'The hawthorn's faint and quickly gone, The grass in autumn dies; Put by your life, and see the spring With everlasting eyes.'

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