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1859–1936

XXVII.

Alfred Edward Housman

The sigh that heaves the grasses Whence thou wilt never rise Is of the air that passes And knows not if it sighs.

The diamond tears adorning Thy low mound on the lea, Those are the tears of morning, That weeps, but not for thee.

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