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CONSECRATED GROUND by KATE L. DICKINSON

First Line: SHE DOES NOT SLEEP IN CONSECRATED GROUND
Last Line: TO SLEEP ALONE.
Subject(s): BOREDOM; DEATH; IGNORANCE; ENNUI; DEAD, THE; DULLNESS; STUPDITY;
She does not sleep in consecrated ground,
Within a walled and populous town of death.
Her soul loved solitude.
Now in the deep spruce wood
She sleeps alone.
Only the shy young deer approach the stone,
A rough-hewn granite full of ruby fire,
(Her life was fire).
Only the wandering wind, the climbing briar.
It is her own desire
To sleep alone.



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