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George Parsons Lathrop

Daughter of my nobler hope
  That dying gave thee birth,
     Sweet Melancholy!
  For memory of the dead,
  In her dear stead,
    ‘Bide thou with me,
    Sweet Melancholy!
As purple shadows to the tree,
When the last sun-rays sadly slope
Athwart the bare and darkening earth,
    Art thou to me,
    Sweet Melancholy!

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From Rose and Roof-Tree: Poems

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