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THREE SISTERS by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: THREE SISTERS REST BENEATH
Last Line: AND ADELAIDE.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS; SISTERS;
Three sisters rest beneath
This cypress shade,
Sprightly Rebecca, Anne,
And Adelaide.
Gentle their hearts to all
On earth, save Man;
In Him, they said, all Grief,
All Wo began.
Spinsters they lived, and spinsters
Here are laid;
Sprightly Rebecca, Anne,
And Adelaide.



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