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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the dust a spirit sank like dew
Last Line: And stormy joy and an ecstatic pain.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The
First Line: Into the dust a spirit sank like dew
Last Line: And stormy joy and an ecstatic pain.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The
INTO the dust a spirit sank like dew,
From dust to be exhaled like air again.
Meanwhile brief darkness and sun's broken light,
And stormy joy and an ecstatic pain.
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