<h3><SPAN name="Mists_and_Rains" id="Mists_and_Rains"></SPAN>Mists and Rains</h3>
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O last of Autumn and Winter—steeped in haze,<br/>
O sleepy seasons! you I love and praise,<br/>
Because around my heart and brain you twine<br/>
A misty winding-sheet and a nebulous shrine.<br/>
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On that great plain, where frigid blasts abound,<br/>
Where through the nights, so long, the vane whirls round,<br/>
My soul, more free than in the springtime soft,<br/>
Will stretch her raven wings and soar aloft,<br/>
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Unto an heart with gloomy things replete,<br/>
On which remain the frosts of former Times,<br/>
O pallid seasons, mistress of our climes<br/>
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As your pale shadows—nothing is so sweet,<br/>
Unless it be, on a moonless night a-twain,<br/>
On some chance couch to soothe to sleep our Pain.<br/></p>
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