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OUR OWN by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THEY WALK HERE WITH US, HAND IN
Last Line: GOOD-BY! GOOD-BY! GOOD-BY!
Subject(s): FAREWELL; GOSSIP; GRAVES; PARTING; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;
THEY walk here with us, hand in hand;
We gossip, knee by knee;
They tell us all that they have planned --
Of all their joys to be, --
And, laughing, leave us: And, to-day,
All desolate we cry
Across wide waves of voiceless graves --
Good-by! Good-by! Good-by!



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