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Winter Rain

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Wild clouds roll up, slag-dark and slaty gray,     And in the oaks the sere wind sobs and sighs,     Weird as a word a man before he dies     Mutters beneath his breath yet fears to say:     The rain drives down; and by each forest way     Each dead leaf drips, and murmurings arise     As of fantastic footsteps, one who flies,     Whispering, the dim eidolon of the day.     Now is the wood a place where phantoms house:     Around each tree wan ghosts of flowers crowd,     And spectres of sweet weeds that once were fair,     Rustling; and through the bleakness of bare boughs     A voice is heard, now low, now stormy loud,     As if the ghosts of all the leaves were there.

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