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NOVEMBER; IMPRESSION by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

First Line: A WEFT OF LEAFLESS SPRAY
Last Line: THE RUIN NOW SO INTOLERABLY SAD.
Subject(s): NOVEMBER;

A weft of leafless spray
Woven fine against the gray
Of the autumnal day,
And blurred along those ghostly garden tops
Clusters of berries crimson as the drops
That may heart bleeds when I remember
How often, in how many a far November,
Of childhood and my children's childhood I was glad,
With the wild rapture of the Fall
Thrilling from me to them, of all
The ruin now so intolerably sad.



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