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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BETRAYAL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: She will not die, they say
Last Line: All blind, and blind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: She will not die, they say
Last Line: All blind, and blind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
She will not die, they say,
She will but put her beauty by
And hie away.
Oh, but her beauty gone, how lonely
Then will seem all reverie,
How black to me!
All things will sad be made
And every hope a memory,
All gladness dead.
Ghosts of the past will know
My weakest hour, and whisper to me,
And coldly go.
And hers in deep of sleep,
Clothed in its mortal beauty I shall see,
And, waking, weep.
Naught will my mind then find
In man's false Heaven my peace to be:
All blind, and blind.
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