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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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THE VOICE OF THE VOID

I warn, like the one drop of rain
On your face, ere the storm;
Or tremble in whispered refrain
With your blood, beating warm.
I am the presence that ever
Baffles your touch's endeavor,—
Gone like the glimmer of dust
Dispersed by a gust.
I am the absence that taunts you,
The fancy that haunts you;
The ever unsatisfied guess
That, questioning emptiness,
Wins a sigh for reply.
Nay; nothing am I,
But the flight of a breath—
For I am Death!
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