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TRYST by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE

First Line: I THOUGHT TO HAVE MADE HER MY BRIDE
Last Line: WE LEAVE TO LOVE.
Subject(s): DEATH; FUTURE LIFE; LOVE; MARRIAGE; REUNIONS; DEAD, THE; RETRIBUTION; ETERNITY; AFTER LIFE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;

@2I@1 THOUGHT to have made her my bride,
And now she is dead;
Death holds her close by his side
In his earth-dark bed.

Not a murmur, a motion, a breath!—
In vain does he woo:
Being dead, yet she yields not to Death;—
Endlessly true!

She knows that I need her now
All else above:
She will come to me; when and how
We leave to Love.



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