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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH CAME WITH THE MORNING, by KATHRYN DUDLEY
First Line: I lay last night and watched for death
Last Line: And looking up, I saw that death was robed in blue!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: I lay last night and watched for death
Last Line: And looking up, I saw that death was robed in blue!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
I lay last night and watched for Death:
I thought that he would come with stealthy step,
With sweeping robes of dingy black
And greedy hands, strong and cold and thin.
I thought that he would clutch my heart
And take it with him swiftly through the dark.
He came instead at break of day,
With Dawn, a gentle nurse all clothed in gray,
Who held the curtains wide for me to see
The way that I must go. She fanned my fevered breath
With morning air and bathed my brow with dew,
And looking up, I saw that Death was robed in blue!
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