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AUTUMN by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON

First Line: A FLOCK OF CROWS HIGH FROM THE NORTHLAND FLIES
Last Line: WHILE THE OLD MAN UNTO OUR LADY PRAYS.
Subject(s): DEATH; OLD AGE; PEACE; DEAD, THE;
A FLOCK of crows high from the Northland flies,
On their dark wings the evening sunshine plays.
Below the Ursulines' calm convent lies
And an old man dreams in its garden ways.
From the cool chapel float the harmonies
Upward in rapture deep of peace and grace
And fall and fade ... All sound of living dies
While the old man unto Our Lady prays.



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