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THE LAST SCENE by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY

First Line: HER LILY SKIN, HER BRONZE-RED HAIR
Last Line: FOR ALL IT WAS SO WHITE AND FAIR.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
HER lily skin, her bronze-red hair
Glowed brightly from her dying bed,
No wonder that Death coveted
A thing so radiantly fair.
Her many friends must watch and pray
And chafe her hands and soothe her head,
And care for her till she be dead.

She was forsaken night and day,
She was forsaken of her breath,
And half forsaken, too, by Death,
Who only took her soul away:
Her poor, dark soul, unwashed, unfed,
And left her body lying there,
For all it was so white and fair.



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