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MORTALITY by GAMALIEL BRADFORD

First Line: HOW COULD YOU BELIEVE THAT I
Last Line: TELL ME, HOW? -- GOD KNOWS I DO.
Subject(s): MORTALITY;

How could you believe that I
Could adore so cold a creature,
One who bears mortality
Written large on every feature?

How could one of my demeanor
Come to love a thing like you,
Just a spectre, paler, leaner?
Tell me, how? -- God knows I do.



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