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In The Lane

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The birds return,     The blossom brightens again the cherry bough.     The hedges are green again     In the airless lane,     And hedge and blossom and bird call, Now, now, now!     O birds, return!     Who will care if the blossom die on the bough,     Or the hedge be bare again     In the screaming lane?     For what they were these are not, are not now.     The one gone makes     All that remain seem strange and lonely now.     She will not walk here again     In the blossoming lane:--     And there's a dead bough in every blossoming bough.

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