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THREE SORROWS by SAROJINI NAIDU

First Line: HOW SHALL I HONOUR THEE, O SACRED GRIEF?
Last Line: INTO A DEATHLESS SHRINE!
Subject(s): DEATH; LOVE - LOSS OF; PAIN; DEAD, THE; SUFFERING; MISERY;
HOW shall I honour thee, O sacred grief?
Fain would my love transmute
My suffering into music and my heart
Into a deathless lute!

How shall I cherish thee, O precious pain?
Fain would my trembling hand
Fashion and forge of thee a deathless sword
To serve my stricken land!

And thou, sweet sorrow, terrible and dear,
Most bitter and divine?
O I will carve thee with deep agony
Into a deathless shrine!



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