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Dreams and days

Lathrop, George Parsons (1851-1898)

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THE BRIDE OF WAR
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A RUNE OF THE RAIN
  
BREAKERS
  
BLACKMOUTH, OF COLORADO
  
THE CHILD-YEAR
  
CHRISTENING
  
THANKSGIVING TURKEY
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Dead leaves and stricken boughs
She heaped o'er the fallen form—
Wolf nor hawk nor lawless storm
Him from his rest should rouse;
But first, with solemn vows,
Took rifle, pouch, and horn,
And the belt that he had worn.
Then, onward pressing fast
Through the forest rude and vast,
Hunger-wasted, fever-parch'd,
Many bitter days she marched
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With bleeding feet that spurned the flinty pain;
One thought always throbbing through her brain:
“They shall never say, ‘He was afraid,’—
They shall never cry, ‘The coward stayed!’”
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