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Last published Tue, Jun 9, 2015
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain;
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ;
Far, far away thy children leave the land I'll fares the land,
to hastening ills a prey...
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