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OCTAVES: 10 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

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Last Line: WITH WEEPING, AND BE GLAD THAT HE IS GONE.
Subject(s): LONELINESS;
Where does a dead man go? -- The dead man dies;
But the free life that would no longer feed
On fagots of outburned and shattered flesh
Wakes to a thrilled invisible advance,
Unchained (or fettered else) of memory;
And when the dead man goes it seems to me
'T were better for us all to do away
With weeping, and be glad that he is gone.




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