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...along through the driving snow, been startled by a low, mournful wail? Have you not felt inclined to stop and see what was the cause of it? Well might it be, indeed, could you but understand its meaning, for it is the wail of the letter-box, its agonizing moan of helplessness and impotence. But It is doomed to everlasting dumbness. Its secrets are by It unutterable. A Sphinx? No, a thousand times more than the Sphinx. For what to us is the enigma of the Sphinx, a riddle of the dead past, compared with the enigmas of our living...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL-BOXES. | 11/26/1880 | See Source »

...lonely forests moan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IM HERBST. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

...fern and flower; the pine's low moan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEPTEMBER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

...night-winds moan with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GYPSY GIRL. | 10/10/1879 | See Source »

...with many a sigh and moan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONNET. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

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