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When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Walt Whitman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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