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Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather: Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Thomas William Parsons

  1. A Song for September, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
  2. No dream his life was-but a fight! Could any Beatrice see A lover in that anchorite?
  3. On a Bust of Dante, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
  4. O Time! whose verdicts mock our own, The only righteous judge art thou!

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