by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
The sun has set, and the long grass now
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The sun has set, and the long grass now Waves dreamily in the evening wind; And the wild bird has flown from that old gray stone In some warm nook a couch to find. In all the lonely landscape round I see no light and hear no sound, Except the wind that far away Come sighing o'er the healthy sea.
T. Fisk sets stanza 1
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- by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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