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1849–1916

OUR OWN

James Whitcomb Riley

They walk here with us, hand-in-hand; We gossip, knee-by-knee; They tell us all that they have planned — Of all their joys to be,—

And, laughing, leave us: And, to-day, All desolate we cry Across wide waves of voiceless graves — Good-by! Good-by! Good-by!

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