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...For could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary! " Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign, Yet, gently pressed, press gently mine, My Mary!" Afterward the shuffling old usher turns a key in a green gate,...