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 ALL-HALLOWS EVE

dreadful hour is sighing for a moon

To light old lovers to the place of tryst,

And old footsteps from blessed acres soon

On old known pathways will be lightly prest;

And winds that went to eavesdrop since the noon,

Kinking at some old tale told sweetly brief,

Will give a cowslick to the yarrow leaf,

And sling the round nut from the hazel down.

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