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APRIL by LOUIS GINSBERG

First Line: EVEN WHEN ALL MY BODY SLEEPS
Last Line: MY DUST WILL DREAM OF YOU!
Subject(s): APRIL; GRAVES; LOVE - NATURE OF; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;

Even when all my body sleeps,
I shall remember yet
The wistfulness that April keeps,
When boughs at dusk are wet.

The haunted twilight on the lane;
The far-off cricket's croon;
And beautiful and washed by rain,
The mellow rounded moon!

So, underneath the waving grass,
And underneath the dew,
April, whenever you will pass,
My dust will dream of you!



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