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1849–1916

BLOOMS OF MAY

James Whitcomb Riley

But yesterday!... O blooms of May, And summer roses — Where-away? O stars above,

And lips of love And all the honeyed sweets thereof! O lad and lass And orchard-pass

And briered lane, and daisied grass! O gleam and gloom, And woodland bloom, And breezy breaths of all perfume!—

No more for me Or mine shall be Thy raptures — save in memory,— No more — no more —

Till through the Door Of Glory gleam the days of yore.

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