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BY THE HEARTH-STONE by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT

Poet Analysis

First Line: BY THE HEARTH-STONE / SHE SITS ALONE
Last Line: ONLY REMEMBERS.
BY the hearth-stone
She sits alone,
The long night bearing.
With eyes that gleam
Into the dream
Of the firelight staring.

Low and more low
The dying glow
Burns in the embers;
She nothing heeds
And nothing needs --
Only remembers.



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