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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HUMAN LIFE, by WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK
First Line: Like smoke I vanish though I burn like flame
Last Line: Before a nothing and behind a name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mallock, W. H.
Subject(s): Mortality
First Line: Like smoke I vanish though I burn like flame
Last Line: Before a nothing and behind a name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mallock, W. H.
Subject(s): Mortality
Like smoke I vanish though I burn like flame,
I flicker in the gusts of wrong and right—
A shining frailty in the guise of might;
Before a nothing and behind a name.
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