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Poems

By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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CCXXXVII

[Some in a child would live, some in a book]

Some in a child would live, some in a book;
When I am dead let there remain of me
Less than a word—a little passing look,
Some sign the soul had once, ere she forsook
The form of life to live eternally.