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SONGS: 7. I KNOW THEE, O THOU WAILING WIND! by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS

Last Line: PASS BY AND TREAD THEM UNDER FOOT.
Subject(s): HEARTS; LOVE - LOSS OF; MEMORY; PASSION;

I know thee, O thou wailing wind!
Thou comest from the summer's tomb,
Regretting what is left behind,
The glory dimmed, the lost perfume.

Could I remember, wailing wind,
As thou rememberest, I could weep,
And weeping thus I should unbind
The dead from their eternal sleep.

But still they sleep, remorseful wind,
They moulder passive, cold and mute;
Wayfaring thoughts and passions blind
Pass by and tread them under foot.



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