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A WASTED LAND.

Alas, for a sound is heard
  Of a bitterly broken song;
Grievous is every word;
  And the burden is weary and long
Like the waves between ebb and flow;
And it comes when the winds are low,
  Or whenever the night is nigh,
  And the world hath space for a sigh.