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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHY?, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The new year comes with her radiant face
Last Line: Why you were taken, and I left here?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Life
First Line: The new year comes with her radiant face
Last Line: Why you were taken, and I left here?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Life
THE New Year comes with her radiant face,
Clad in white, like a waiting bride --
But she brings no word through the empty space,
No message has reached me since you died.
Was Death Life's ending, or did you go
To a realm so vast, and a task so high,
That you have forgotten this world below,
Where Life is a Dream, and the Dreamers die?
Shall I know, some day, when a cold, still hand
Leads me, in my turn, from this transient sphere,
And guides me on to that Unseen Land,
Why you were taken, and I left here?
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