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Oblivion

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Green moss will creep              Along the shady graves where we shall sleep.              Each year will bring              Another brood of birds to nest and sing.              At dawn will go              New ploughmen to the fields we used to know.              Night will call home              The hunter from the hills we loved to roam.              She will not ask,              The milkmaid, singing softly at her task,              Nor will she care              To know if I were brave or you were fair.              No one will think              What chalice life had offered us to drink,              When from our clay              The sun comes back to kiss the snow away.

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