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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: These, who desired to live, went out to death
Last Line: They could not know -- the splendour of their dying.
Variant Title(s): Inscription
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: These, who desired to live, went out to death
Last Line: They could not know -- the splendour of their dying.
Variant Title(s): Inscription
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
These, who desired to live, went out to death:
Dark underground their golden youth is lying.
We live: and there is brightness in our breath
They could not know -- the splendour of their dying.
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