Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT A BURIAL, by WILLIAM WATSON


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First Line: Lord of all light and darkness
Last Line: Lord of all life and death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Burials; Theology


LORD of all Light and Darkness,
Lord of all Life and Death,
Behold, we lay in earth to-day
The flesh that perisheth.
Take to Thyself whatever may
Be not as dust and breath --
Lord of all Light and Darkness,
Lord of all Life and Death.





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