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TRAGEDIES by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: TWO KINDS THERE ARE: THE ONE THEATRIC, BOLD
Last Line: YET KNOWS THE STARS SHINE SILVERY AND HIGH.
Subject(s): MURDER; SOUL; STARS; TRAGEDY;

TWO kinds there are: the one theatric, bold --
A murder, maybe, horrible to see,
Lives lost by fire or flood, and bodies cold
That speak some tale of awful agony;

The other, mumming by a milder name:
A human soul that as the days go by
Sinks deeper down into some pit of shame,
Yet knows the stars shine silvery and high.



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