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THE ACTOR by CLINTON SCOLLARD

First Line: NIGHT AFTER NIGHT A MIMIC DEATH HE DIED
Last Line: NO TEARDROP FELL FROM ANY MOURNER'S EYE.
Subject(s): ACTORS & ACTRESSES; DEATH; MOURNING; DEAD, THE; BEREAVEMENT;
NIGHT after night a mimic death he died,
While sympathetic thousands wept and sighed;
But when at last he came in truth to die,
No teardrop fell from any mourner's eye.



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