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Gathered leaves

Coleridge, Mary E. (1861-1907)

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[Unpublished Poems]
 
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GRIEF AND DEATH
 
TO ONE WHO WAS NURSING A BLIND FATHER
 
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TO AN OLD FRIEND
 
TO TIME THE COMFORTER

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TO TIME THE COMFORTER

Dumb Comforter of woes!
The depths of whose deep comfort no one knows;
Whose consolations on the spirit steal
More gently than Love's gentlest word; and heal
Where Love falls back affrighted; only life
Proves Thee the Comforter of mortal strife,
Of all that doth begin and end—that He
May speak in thy dread silence endlessly!
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