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THE END OF LOVE by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE

Poet Analysis

First Line: NOW HE IS DEAD
Last Line: THAN MUD OR STONE?
Subject(s): DEATH; LOVE; DEAD, THE;
Now he is dead
How should I know
My true love's arms
From wind and snow?

No man I meet
In field or house,
Though in the street
A hundred pass.

The hurrying dust
Has never a face,
No longer human
In man or woman.

Now he is gone
Why should I mourn
My true love more
Than mud or stone?


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