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GEOLOGY by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP

First Line: WHAT MATTER IF MY LIFE BE PASSED
Last Line: THEY'LL FIND THE LIME THAT MADE MY BONES.
Subject(s): DEATH; DECAY; GEOLOGY; DEAD, THE; ROT; DECADENCE;

WHAT matter if my life be passed
In laughter or in tears and groans?
Some day, compressed within a rock,
They'll find the lime that made my bones.



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