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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 blew and beat. / She watched him riding through the rain / Along the river's misty shore, / And turned with lips that laughed disdain: / "To meet no more!"
/ II. 'Mid heavy roses weighed with dew / The chirping crickets hid; / I' the honeysuckle avenue / Sang the green katydid. / Soft southern stars smiled through the pines. / Through stately windows, draped with vines, / The drifting moonlight's silver blew. / She stared upon a face, now dead, / A soldier calm that wore; / Despair sobbed on the lips that said, / "To meet no more. "