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MEN AND WOMEN.



LOVE AMONG THE RUINS.

1.
Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles
Miles and miles
On the solitary pastures where our sheep
Half-asleep
Tinkle homeward thro’ the twilight, stray or stop
As they crop—

2.
Was the site once of a city great and gay,
(So they say)