<h3><SPAN name="AFTERMATH" id="AFTERMATH"></SPAN>AFTERMATH</h3>
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<span class="i0"><span class="letra">C</span>anst thou conjure a vanished morn of spring,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Or bid the ashes of the sunset glow<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Again to redness? Are we strong to wring<br/></span>
<span class="i2">From trodden grapes the juice drunk long ago?<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Can leafy longings stir in autumn’s blood,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Or can I wear a pearl dissolved in wine,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Or go a-Maying in a winter wood,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Or paint with youth thy wasted cheek, or mine?<br/></span>
<span class="i0">What bloom, then, shall abide, since ours hath sped?<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Thou art more lost to me than they who dwell<br/></span>
<span class="i0">In Egypt’s sepulchres, long ages fled;<br/></span>
<span class="i2">And would I touch—Ah me! I might as well<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Covet the gold of Helen’s vanished head,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Or kiss back Cleopatra from the dead!<br/></span>
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