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WINTER BURIAL by HENRY BELLAMANN

First Line: EARTH, WILL YOU BE KIND TO HER
Last Line: NEXT SPRING?
Subject(s): DEATH; FUNERALS; WINTER; DEAD, THE; BURIALS;
Earth, will you be kind to her?
I give her back . . .

Will your clumsy ricks and clay
Break her silk and pearl and ivory
To trash? . . .

. . . or shall I see a little creeping flush
of first flowers along that slope
next Spring?



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