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WILL by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE

First Line: SOMETHING I GIVE TO ALL MY LOVES
Last Line: BUT I LOVED SILENCE BEST.
Subject(s): KISSES; LOVE; MEMORY; SILENCE; SOUL;
Something I give to all my loves
A dream, a song, a kiss,
A lasting hurt, a memory --
But never gave I this:

The whole of me, the soul of me,
The deep integral part;
The lovely and the awful things
Locked close within my heart.

These I bequeath to silence now;
Let no one dare contest.
Something I give to all my loves;
But I loved silence best.



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