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Spirit Of Sadness

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She loved the Autumn, I the Spring,     Sad all the songs she loved to sing;     And in her face was strangely set     Some great inherited regret.     Some look in all things made her sigh,     Yea! sad to her the morning sky:     'So sad! so sad its beauty seems' -     I hear her say it still in dreams.     But when the day grew grey and old,     And rising stars shone strange and cold,     Then only in her face I saw     A mystic glee, a joyous awe.     Spirit of Sadness, in the spheres     Is there an end of mortal tears?     Or is there still in those great eyes     That look of lonely hills and skies?

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