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LEAVES by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: ALL YOUR SYLVAN PROPHECIES
Last Line: "DOOMED, ALAS, TO DIE."
Subject(s): LEAVES; TRANSIENCE; IMPERMANENCE;

All your sylvan prophecies
But a phantom sigh!
"Yea, we listened to the breeze
Tempting us to fly
Like the summer birds and bees
From the branches high;
Now beneath our naked trees
Shadowless we lie,
In the autumn mysteries
Doomed, alas, to die."



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