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SCINTILLA by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE

First Line: I KISSED A KISS IN YOUTH
Last Line: AT A DEAD MAN'S DOOR.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
I kissed a kiss in youth
Upon a dead man's brow;
And that was long ago, --
And I'm a grown man now.

It's lain there in the dust,
Thirty years and more; --
My lips that set a light
At a dead man's door.


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