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THE LAMENT OF IAN THE PROUD by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: WHAT IS THIS CRYING THAT I HEAR IN THE WIND?
Last Line: AND WIND CRYING TO ME WHO AM OLD AND BLIND!
Subject(s): BLINDNESS; GRIEF; LAMENT; LOVE - LOSS OF; OLD AGE; VISUALLY HANDICAPPED; SORROW; SADNESS;

What is this crying that I hear in the wind?
Is it the old sorrow and the old grief?
Or is it a new thing coming, a whirling leaf
About the grey hair of me who am weary and blind?
I know not what it is, but on the moor above the shore
There is a stone which the purple nets of the heather bind,
And thereon is writ: @3She will return no more@1.
O blown whirling leaf,
And the old grief,
And wind crying to me who am old and blind!



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