V
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Published 01/07/1880
Part of New-Year's Eve
The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elmtree,
And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea,
And the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave,
But I shall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering grave.