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The chestnuts shine through the cloven rind, And the woodland leaves are red, my dear; The scarlet fuchsias burn in the wind— Funeral plumes for the Year!
Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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- Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
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- Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- 1885
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"Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9188.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 22, 2025.
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Page 51
The Year which has brought me so much woe That if it were not for you, my dear, I could wish the fuchsias' fire might glow For me as well as the Year.