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AUTUMN EVENING IN SERBIA

All the thin shadows
Have closed on the grass,
With the drone on their dark wings
The night beetles pass.
Folded her eyelids,
A maiden asleep,
Day sees in her chamber
The pallid moon peep.


From the bend of the briar
The roses are torn,
And the folds of the wood tops
Are faded and worn.

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