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THE BROKEN TRYST by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

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First Line: WALKING ALONE WHERE WE WALKED TOGETHER
Last Line: MIGHT I WHIRL AWAY WITH THEM!

WALKING alone where we walked together,
When June was breezy and blue,
I watch in the gray autumnal weather
The leaves fall inconstant as you.

If a dead leaf startle behind me,
I think 't is your garment's hem,
And, oh, where no memory could find me.
Might I whirl away with them!



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