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She laid her
docile Crescent
down
And this
confiding Stone
Still states to
Dates that
have forgot
The News that
she is gone.
So constant to
it's Stolid trust
The Shaft that
never knew -
It shames the
Constancy that
fled
Before it's
Emblem flew -
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