"Ah, we fondly cherish Faded things That had better perish. Memory clings To each leaf it saves. Chilly winds are blowing. It will soon be snowing On our graves."
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Poets from the United StatesEditors from the United States19th-century poets from the United StatesPeople from North Carolina
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Gather Leaves and Grasses, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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John Henry Boner
John Henry Boner (January 31, 1845 – March 6, 1903) was an American editor and poet.
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