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I PAUSED to read a letter of hers / By the moon's cold shine, / Eyeing it in the tenderest way, / And edging it up to catch each ray / Upon her light-penned line. / I did not know what years would flow / Of her life's span and mine / Ere I read another letter of hers / By the moon's cold shine!
I chance now on the last of hers, / By the moon's cold shine; / It is the one remaining page / Out of the many shallow and sage / Whereto she set her sign. / Who could foresee there were to be / Such letters of pain and pine / Ere I should read this last of hers / By the moon's cold shine!