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/ I. The slanted storm tossed at their feet / The frost-nipped Autumn leaves; / The park's high pines were caked with sleet / And ice-spears armed the eaves. / They strolled adown the pillared pines / To part where wet and twisted vines / About the gate-posts flapped and beat. / She watched him dimming in the rain / Along the river's misty shore, / And laughed with lips that sneered disdain / "To meet no more!"
/ II. 'Mong heavy roses weighed with dew / The chirping crickets hid; / Down the honeysuckle avenue / Creaked the green katydid. / The scattered stars smiled thro' the pines; / Thro' stately windows draped with vines / The rising moonlight's silver blew. / He stared at lips proud, white, and dead, / A chiseled calm that wore; / Despair moaned on the lips that said / "To meet no more. "