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LYRICS TO IANTHE (2). LAMENT by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

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First Line: MILD IS THE PARTING YEAR, AND SWEET
Last Line: THE TEAR THAT WOULD HAVE SOOTHED IT ALL.
Subject(s): AUTUMN; SEASONS; FALL;
MILD is the parting year, and sweet
The odour of the falling spray;
Life passes on more rudely fleet,
And balmless is its closing day.

I wait its close, I court its gloom,
But mourn that never must there fall
Or on my breast or on my tomb
The tear that would have soothed it all.


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