From the Headboard of a Grave in Paraguay
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A troth, and a grief, and a blessing, Disguised them and came this way, And one was a promise, and one was a doubt, And one was a rainy day. And they met betimes with this maiden, And the promise it spake and lied, And the doubt it gibbered and hugged itself, And the rainy day - she died.
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