The Dead Lover
Time is so long when a man is dead! Some one sews; and the room is made Very clean; and the light is shed Soft through the window-shade. Yesterday I thought: "I know Just how the bells will sound, and how The friends will talk, and the sermon go, And the hearse-horse bow and bow!" This is to-day; and I have no thing To think of - nothing whatever to do But to hear the throb of the pulse of a wing That wants to fly back to you.
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"Time is so long when a man is dead!..."
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