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As imperceptibly as
Grief
The Summer lapsed
away -
Too imperceptible at
last
To feel like
Perfidy -
A Quietness distilled
As Twilight long
begun
Or Nature spending
with Herself
Sequestered Afternoon -
The Dusk drew
earlier in
The Morning foreign
shone
A Courteous, yet
harrowing Grace
As Guest who would
be gone -
And thus, without
a Wing
Or service of a keel
Our Summer made
her light escape
Into the Beautiful.
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