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Outremont.

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Far stretched the landscape, fair, without a flaw,      Down to one silver sheet, some stream or cloud,      Through glamorous mists. Midway, an engine ploughed     Across the scene. In meditative awe     I stood and gazed, absorbed in what I saw,      Till sweet-breathed Evening came, the pensive-browed,      And creeping from the city, spread her shroud     Over the sunlit slopes of Outremont.     Soon the mild Indian summer will be past,      November's mists soon flee December's snows;     The trees may perish, and the winter's blast      Wreck the tall windmills; these weak eyes may close;     But ever will that scene continue fast      Fixed in my soul, where richer still it grows.

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