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The Last of England

from 15 Wild Decembers by The Geoff Smith Band

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the warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing
the bare boughs are signing, the pale flowers are dying
and the year on the earth her death bed
in a shroud of leaves dead is lying

come, months, come away
from november to may
in your saddest array
follow the bier
of the dead cold year
and like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre

the chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling
the rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling for the year
the blithe swallows have flown and the lizards each gone to his dwelling

come, months, come away
put on white, black and grey
let your light sisters play
ye, follow the bier
of the dead cold year
and make her grave green with tear on tear

['A Dirge' by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822]

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from 15 Wild Decembers, released June 27, 1995

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