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DOROTHY by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP

First Line: DEAR LITTLE DOROTHY, SHE IS NO MORE!
Last Line: ARE MORE LOST THAN MY HEART, WHICH DIED NOT WHEN IT BROKE!
Subject(s): DEATH - CHILDREN; DEATH - BABIES;

DEAR little Dorothy, she is no more!
I have wandered world-wide from shore to shore,
I have seen as great beauties as ever were wed;
But none can console me for Dorothy dead.

Dear little Dorothy! How strange it seems
That her face is less real than the faces of dreams;
That the love which kept true, and the lips which so spoke,
Are more lost than my heart, which died not when it broke!



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