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_Who Died on October 25th_, 1899.
THERE was a day, / A horrible Autumn day, / When from her home, the home she made for ours / And that day made a nightmare of white flowers / And folk in black who whispered pityingly, / They carried her away; / And left our hearts all cold / And empty, yet with such a store to hold / Of sodden grief the slow drops still ooze out, / And, falling on all fair things, they wither these.