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Swifter far than summer's flight- / Swifter far than youth's delight- / Swifter far than happy night, / Art thou come and gone- / As the earth when leaves are dead, / As the night when sleep is sped, / As the heart when joy is fled, / I am left lone, alone.
The swallow summer comes again- / The owlet night resumes her reign- / But the wild-swan youth is fain / To fly with thee, false as thou. - / My heart each day desires the morrow; / Sleep itself is turned to sorrow; / Vainly would my winter borrow / Sunny leaves from any bough.
Lilies for a bridal bed- / Roses for a matron's head- / Violets for a maiden dead- / Pansies let MY flowers be: / On the living grave I bear / Scatter them without a tear- / Let no friend, however dear, / Waste one hope, one fear for me.