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When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, + 

And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, + 

I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. + 

Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, + 

Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, + 

And thought of him I love. + 