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Premonition

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'Twas a year ago and the moon was bright     (Oh, I remember so well, so well),     I walked with my love in a sea of light,     And the voice of my sweet was a silver bell.     And sudden the moon grew strangely dull,     And sudden my love had taken wing;     I looked on the face of a grinning skull,     I strained to my heart a ghastly thing.     'Twas but fantasy, for my love lay still     In my arms with her tender eyes aglow,     And she wondered why my lips were chill,     Why I was silent and kissed her so.     A year has gone and the moon is bright,     A gibbous moon like a ghost of woe;     I sit by a new-made grave to-night,     And my heart is broken - it's strange, you know.

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