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THEFT by WINIFRED LUCAS

First Line: DEATH COULD NOT HAVE THEE, SWEET, AND BE UNSATISFIED
Last Line: HAS EVER LOVE OR BEAUTY DIED?
Subject(s): BEAUTY; DEATH; LOVE - LOSS OF; DEAD, THE;

DEATH could not have thee, sweet, and be
Unsatisfied.
He'd leave us helpless, to abide
His coming endlessly denied.
And so, I see,
Of him thy loveliness and thee
Are wandering wide.
A robber fierce of will was he
In deed belied;—
Who, fain to steal, could only free.
For, at his impotent decree,
Has ever love or beauty died?



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