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Reuben and Other Poems

by Robert Leighton

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Alone again, she felt as one bereft

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Of outward help or hope, and doubted whether
'Twere wise to break with priest and church together;
“For though they fail'd to rid me of my grief,
The thought that yet they would, gave some relief;
But, now I've cast them off, I see their worth,
And feel the desolation of this earth.”