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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HASEKAWA, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps it doesn't matter that you died
Last Line: But life has told on you.
Variant Title(s): An Epitaph
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Life; Truth; Dead, The
First Line: Perhaps it doesn't matter that you died
Last Line: But life has told on you.
Variant Title(s): An Epitaph
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Life; Truth; Dead, The
Perhaps it doesn't matter that you died,
Life is a bal masqué which you saw through.
You never told on Life — you had your pride;
But Life has told on you.
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