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A WIFE'S GRAVE by DAMAGETUS

First Line: THESE WORDS, PHOCAEA, WERE THEANO'S LAST
Last Line: MIGHT PUT MY HAND IN YOUR HAND AS I DIE!'
Subject(s): GRAVES; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;
THESE words, Phocaea, were Theano's last
When into the night where no man reaps she passed:
'Woe's me, Apellichus! How wide, how wide,
Husband, the gulf whereo'er your ship must ride!
But Death stands close to me. Ah, would that I
Might put my hand in your hand as I die!'



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