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SMALL DEATH TO LAUGH by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE

First Line: AWAY, AIRY COMBER OF COMETS!
Last Line: AWAY, AIRY COMBER OF COMETS!
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

Away, airy comber of comets!
The grass in the wind will be your hair;
From your gaping eyes will-o'-wisps
Will rise, prisoners in the poor heads . . .

Graveyard flowers called Little Flirts
Will overgrow your earthy laugh . . .
And forget-me-nots, those flowers of dungeons forgot . . .

Make light of it: poets' coffins
Are but toys to pallbearers,
Violin cases with an empty sound . . .
They'll think you're dead-the bourgeois are dull-
Away, airy comber of comets!



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