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IN MEMORIAM by JAMES ELROY FLECKER

First Line: I NEVER SHALL FORGET THAT NIGHT
Last Line: COMBING OUT YOUR HAIR.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

I never shall forget that night --
Mid-April, four years gone:
Nor how your eyes were bright, too bright,
And how the pavement shone.

@3Death on you now, death on your brow,
Death on your eyes so fair,
Death with his thin shadow hands
Combing out your hair.@1

O eyes long shut and lip to lip
Fastened no more to sing:
Old winter turned you in his grip
And icy blew your spring.

Old winter had you be the throat
You could not speak to me
Save in a low and whispered note
As through a shell the sea.

@3Death on you now, death on your brow,
Death on your eyes so fair,
Death with his thin shadow hands
Combing out your hair.@1



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