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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MORTALITY, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD
First Line: How could you believe that I
Last Line: Tell me, how? -- god knows I do.
Subject(s): Mortality
First Line: How could you believe that I
Last Line: Tell me, how? -- god knows I do.
Subject(s): Mortality
How could you believe that I
Could adore so cold a creature,
One who bears mortality
Written large on every feature?
How could one of my demeanor
Come to love a thing like you,
Just a spectre, paler, leaner?
Tell me, how? -- God knows I do.
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