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A FEAR by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE

First Line: I ROAMED THE WOODS TODAY AND SEEMED TO HEAR
Last Line: "YOU DIED LONG SINCE, AND ALL THIS THING IS HELL!"
Subject(s): DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321); DEATH; FEAR; DEAD, THE;
I ROAMED the woods to-day and seemed to hear,
As Dante heard, the voice of suffering trees.
The twisted roots seemed bare contorted knees,
The bark was full of faces strange with fear.

I hurried home still wrapt in that dark spell,
And all the night upon the world's great lie
I pondered, and a voice seemed whisp'ring nigh,
"You died long since, and all this thing is hell!"



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