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[blank line] [blank line] [blank line] [blank line] WHEN THE LEAVES FALL IN AUTUMN. <sc>From the Italian of Lorenzo Stecchetti.</sc> [blank line] [blank line] /* When the leaves fall in autumn, and you go[**indentation?] To seek the cross that marks my lonely grave, In that far corner where they laid me low The nodding wild-flowers o'er my bones shall wave. Oh, pluck you then, to deck your golden hair, The flowers born of my heart which blossom there: They are the songs I dreamed, but ne'er have sung, The words of love you heard not on my tongue. */ /* <sc>G. A. Greene.</sc> */

Tricky drop caps

Treat the drop cap as an ordinary letter, and the first word as ordinary mixed case. Look at other stanzas as a guide to the indentation of lines whose indentations were affected by the drop cap, and if you don't find a clear pattern, leave a [**note]. This drop cap looks as though it starts without an indentation and the second line is indented. However, the subsequent stanzas show a first-line indent and no indentation on second lines. Because the first stanza is four lines and later ones are two lines, there is not a consistent pattern and the formatter left a note.

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