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LOSS by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT

First Line: SHE SAID: 'LET MY BODY BE BURNED!'
Last Line: LONGED TO LIE BY HIS SIDE IN HER DEATH.
Subject(s): LOVE - COMPLAINTS;
She said: "Let my body be burned!"
Her beautiful body be burned! --
The body lips burned to kiss,
Let flames devour.

The head no empress could match,
The heart so true to love,
Silent to woe, still to wrong,
Consumed in flame.

I weep not now at her death.
I weep that no lover had filled
The need of her heart, so that she
Longed to lie by his side in her death.



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