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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - An Autumn Sonnet
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These little presents of your tenderness,
 Although less grand a gift than was your love,
 Are dear to me in this October stress
 Of wind and war and whirling leaves above.
 They comfort my soul`s Autumn, and they prove
 How little time can do, to ban or bless,
 How much ourselves. You willed the years should move
 Back in their cycle. And behold, love, this!
 --Now, therefore, let us mark this fortunate day,
 And use it for our feast day. Every year
 Let us, when winds are high and the leaves fall,
 Hold in this house our love`s memorial,
 Sitting thus hand in hand. Still let me lay
 As in the happy days, ere leaves were sere,
 My head upon your lap and call you ``dear.``
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