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SLEEPLESS NIGHT by SARA TEASDALE

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First Line: THEY LOVE ME, AND I HAVE NOT MADE THEM HAPPY
Last Line: AND LIFE IS SHORT AND WE SHALL SOON BE GONE.
Subject(s): MORTALITY;
They love me, and I have not made them happy,
(Rush of the wind and river whistles moaning)
They love me and I cannot give them peace,
(The city shifts in sleep with a low groaning).

They love me and I watch their faces aging
And growing pinched as the slow winter dawn;
I give them nothing but a few sad poems,
And life is short and we shall soon be gone.



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