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LYRIQUE (A MADONNA LUCCIOLA) by JOSEPH KLING

First Line: WARMTH / AND SOFTNESS / OF SUMMER
Last Line: AS A WIND-SWEPT QUARRY.
Subject(s): AUTUMN; DEATH; SEASONS; FALL; DEAD, THE;
Warmth
and softness
of summer—
gone!

@3Firefly, where is your glow?@1 ...

In the still moon-shadows of summer-night
I forgot the red glare,
and horror,
and blood, and gall, and iron
of our world. ...

Now autumn-death
has come. ...

@3Firefly, where is your glow?@1

Hard and cold is the moonlight,
Black and cold its shadows,
And bleak my heart
As a wind-swept quarry.



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