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HERBERT MAPES (DROWNED AUGUST 23, 1891) by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON

First Line: LAST NIGHT, WHAT KINGDOM ON HIS BROW!
Last Line: COME BACK TILL WE HAVE SAID FAREWELL!
Subject(s): DROWNING;

LAST night, what kingdom on his brow!
What mellow music in his voice!
What strength to make the eye rejoice!
What life! what flush of youth! . . . and now!

O brow dethroned! O muffled bell
Of speech! O net too loosely wove!
O sunken freight of hope and love!
Come back till we have said farewell!



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