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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INDIFFERENCE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography
First Line: A bird, a wild-flower and a tree
Last Line: I cherish them; they suffer me!
Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: A bird, a wild-flower and a tree
Last Line: I cherish them; they suffer me!
Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
A BIRD, a wild-flower and a tree—
I care for them, not they for me.
I see all heaven in a pool—
But the frog there takes me for a fool.
To this dead thrush a tear I gave—
All Spring shall sing above my grave,
And naught I spend my heart upon
Know lack or loss that I am gone—
A bird, a wild-flower and a tree,
I cherish them; they suffer me!
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