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From: mf@cornell.UUCP (Michael Fingerhut)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: May
Message-ID: <447@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 09:03:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 09:03:40 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Aug-84 07:13:56 EDT
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            May

I cannot tell you how it was;
But this I know: it came to pass
Upon a bright and breezy day
When May was young; ah, pleasant May!
As yet the poppies were not born
Between the blades of tender corn;
The last eggs had not hatched as yet,
Nor any bird forgone its mate.

  I cannot tell you what it was;
But this I know: it did but pass.
It passed away with sunny May,
With all sweet things it passed away,
And left me old, and cold, and grey.

			C. Rossetti