Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PEACE, by LILLIAN LOWRY


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PEACE, by                    
First Line: What? Pity her!
Last Line: Her sculptured peace?
Subject(s): Death; Pity; Dead, The


What? Pity her!
That she has dared to slip away from suffering;
That she has found a peace
Nothing can check or mar;
That she can rest with folded hands
Among green, growing things
And know the mystery of night winds sweeping
Through tall, dark pines
That watch beside her sleeping?
You say her face was sad and drawn,
You pity her!
But I know that sleep caught her lips in smiling;
Why do your lips lament
Her sculptured peace?





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