Writings by Susan Dickinson


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H ST25a


T'was comfort in her Dying Room
To hear the living Clock
A short relief to have the Wind
Walk boldly up and knock
Diversion from the Dying Theme
To hear the children play
But wrath wrong the more
That these could live
And this of ours must die
E.


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