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1849–1916

IV

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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