Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DEAD GIRL, by PAUL FORT


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THE DEAD GIRL, by                    
First Line: This girl is dead, is dead in love's old way
Last Line: They went afield, afield as every day . . .
Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


THIS girl is dead, is dead in love's old way.

They put her in the earth at break of day.

They laid her lonely in her fine array.

They left her lonely where her lone grave lay.

They came back gaily, gaily with the day.

They sang so gaily, gaily: "None may stay.

The girl is dead, is dead in love's old way."

They went afield, afield as every day . . .





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