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Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

The Unreturning

Bliss Carman (1861–1929)

THE OLD eternal spring once more

Comes back the sad eternal way,

With tender rosy light before

The going-out of day.

The great white moon across my door

A shadow in the twilight stirs;

But now for ever comes no more

That wondrous look of Hers.