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COME AWAY, DEATH by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: COME AWAY, DEATH, MAKE NO MISTAKE
Last Line: A DEAD-BORN CHILD DESTROY ITS MOTHER.'
Subject(s): DEATH - CHILDREN; DEATH - BABIES;
Come away, Death, make no mistake,
There's no one in that house to die;
She's young and strong, though suffering pain,
And waits to hear her first-born's cry.

'Nay,' answered Death, 'there's no mistake,
I've been to this same house before;
Though no one saw a corpse come out,
Or any mourner at the door.

'I've been to this same house before,
I know it well from any other:
And now I come again, to see
A dead-born child destroy its mother.'



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