Poem: “Monody” by Herman Melville

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Monody

To have known him, to have loved him
    After loneness long;
And then to be estranged in life,
    And neither in the wrong;
And now for death to set his seal—
    Ease me, a little ease, my song!

By wintry hills his hermit-mound
    The sheeted snow-drifts drape,
And houseless there the snow-bird flits
    Beneath the fir-trees’ crape:
Glazed now with ice the cloistral vine
    That hid the shyest grape.

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