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The Broken TrystJames Russell Lowell

The Broken Tryst

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 'tis your garment's hem,

And, oh, where no memory could find me,

Might I whirl away with them!