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CONTRADICTIONS by AMY LEVY

First Line: NOW, EVEN, I CANNOT THINK IT TRUE
Last Line: AND YET MY THOUGHT REJECTS THE WORD.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

NOW, even, I cannot think it true,
My friend, that there is no more you.
Almost as soon were no more I,
Which were, of course, absurdity !
Your place is bare, you are not seen,
Your grave, I'm told, is growing green ;
And both for you and me, you know,
There's no Above and no Below.
That you are dead must be inferred,
And yet my thought rejects the word.





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