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SALVE! by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN

First Line: TO LIVE WITHIN A CAVE - IT IS MOST GOOD
Last Line: THEY HAVE A CHEERFUL WARMTH -- THOSE ASHES ON THE STONE.
Subject(s): CAVES; CAVERNS;
TO live within a cave -- it is most good;
But, if God make a day,
And some one come, and say,
'Lo! I have gather'd faggots in the wood!'
E'en let him stay,
And light a fire, and fan a temporal mood!

So sit till morning! when the light is grown
That he the path can read,
Then bid the man God-speed!
His morning is not thine: yet must thou own
They have a cheerful warmth -- those ashes on the stone.




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