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Nature-notes and impressions in prose and verse

Cawein, Madison Julius (1865-1914)

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[Yea; death behind her, gazing through her hair]

Yea; death behind her, gazing through her hair;
Death in her lips and in her body fair;
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Ten hundred deaths to him whose heart is hers,
Who kisses her—death, darkness, and despair.
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