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THE LONELY by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

First Line: LONE AND FORGOTTEN
Last Line: A CHILD LAY WEEPING.
Subject(s): SOLITUDE; LONELINESS;

LONE and forgotten
Through a long sleeping,
In the heart of age
A child woke weeping.

No invisible mother
Was nigh him there
Laughing and nodding
From earth and air.

No elfin comrades
Came at his call,
And the earth and the air
Were blank as a wall.

The darkness thickened
Upon him creeping,
In the heart of age
A child lay weeping.



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