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OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 26. LIFE'S USURPATION by ARTHUR W. UPSON

First Line: TELL THEM, SWEET EVENING BREEZE POISED HERE, NO LESS
Last Line: I MUST YIELD UP MY CHERISHED LONELINESS.
Subject(s): GARDENS & GARDENING; LIFE;

TELL them, sweet evening breeze poised here, no less
I love their memory whom thou goest to greet
Out there at heaven's gate, but that I meet
Less oft the idle thoughts of old distress.
Tell them the thought of them still lives to bless,
But since I learned how much, despite defeat,
My life demands that I shall make complete,
I must yield up my cherished loneliness.



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