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AT A BURIAL by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: LORD OF ALL LIGHT AND DARKNESS
Last Line: LORD OF ALL LIFE AND DEATH.
Subject(s): DEATH; FUNERALS; LIFE; RELIGION; DEAD, THE; BURIALS; THEOLOGY;

LORD of all Light and Darkness,
Lord of all Life and Death,
Behold, we lay in earth to-day
The flesh that perisheth.
Take to Thyself whatever may
Be not as dust and breath --
Lord of all Light and Darkness,
Lord of all Life and Death.



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