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EPITAPH by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE

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First Line: THESE, WHO DESIRED TO LIVE, WENT OUT TO DEATH
Last Line: THEY COULD NOT KNOW -- THE SPLENDOUR OF THEIR DYING.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
These, who desired to live, went out to death:
Dark underground their golden youth is lying.
We live: and there is brightness in our breath
They could not know -- the splendour of their dying.


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