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 OOR old weeping, faded garden! Hear her moaning: "Well-a-day! I had friends and wooing lovers In the merry month of May. Now I'm lonely, With me only Lingers dark and drear decay.

"Roses, with their lips of velvet, Kissed me into summer's noon; Dahlias promised faithful friendship 'Neath the yellow harvest-moon. Fair and fleeting Was each greeting; Kiss and promise failed me soon.

"Artemisia, scorned in summer, With her quaint and thrifty ways, Only she has not forsaken Through the dark November days. But to cheer me Still keeps near me, Cheerful in the white sun-rays.

"Yonder forest glows in splendor; Poets, artists, women fair, Kneel before it, like an altar, Heavenly-lighted, blazing there,