Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON THE DEATH OF AN OLD LADY, by L. K. GARRISON


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ON THE DEATH OF AN OLD LADY, by                    
First Line: They tended you for many years
Last Line: I for my part was glad.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Old Age; Dead, The; Paradise


THEY tended you for many years,
And waited for your death,
For life was burdensome alike to you and them.
Yet when the end had come,
They swore that they were sad.

To me you died like some autumnal leaf,
That, stirred by a little breeze,
Parts softly from its branch and falls to earth.
So when your time was come,
And, without fuss or show,
Your spirit went to God,
I for my part was glad.





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