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Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.
Adelaide Crapsey
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Adelaide Crapsey
Age: 36 †
Born: 1878
Born: September 9
Died: 1914
Died: October 8
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
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Ghosts
Steps
Dry
Tree
Passings
Break
Ghost
Free
Trees
Crisp
Sound
Leaves
Crisps
Fall
Passing
Faint
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Listening
Frost
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