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SO IT IS by JOHN FREEMAN

First Line: SO IT IS THAT MEN
Last Line: LIES GRIEF—ASLEEP.
Subject(s): HUMANITY; MANKIND; HUMAN RACE;
SO it is that men
Wake, strive and sleep.
—Sink gnawing in their hollow bosoms
Starved passions, creep
Endless the crushed immortal
Fall'n memories that once rose
Out of the deep.

So it is that women
Wake, love and weep
Till the lost children of love
Laugh, and the unborn leap
Smiling upon their hollow bosoms.
Sealed then in soundless cave
Lies grief—asleep.



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