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OUT OF REACH by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU THINK THEM 'OUT OF REACH'
Last Line: "THIS SIDE OF ""OUT OF REACH."
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

YOU think them "out of reach," your dead?
Nay, by my own dead, I deny
Your "out of reach." -- Be comforted:
'Tis not so far to die.

O by their dear remembered smiles
And outheld hands and welcoming speech,
They wait for us, thousands of miles
This side of "out of reach."



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