XXVII.
The sigh that heaves the grasses
Whence thou wilt never rise
Is of the air that passes
And knows not if it sights.
The diamond tears adorning
Thy low mound on the lea,
Those are the tears of morning,
That weeps, but not for thee.
A.E. Housman, Last Poems
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Public domain: first published in 1922.