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FROM THE HEADBOARD OF A GRAVE IN PARAGUAY by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: A TROTH, AND A GRIEF, AND A BLESSING
Last Line: AND THE RAINY-DAY -- SHE DIED.
Subject(s): DEATH; GRIEF; RAIN; DEAD, THE; SORROW; SADNESS;
A TROTH, and a grief, and a blessing,
Disguised them and came this way, --
And one was a promise, and one was a doubt,
And one was a rainy day.

And they met betimes with this maiden, --
And the promise it spake and lied,
And the doubt it gibbered and hugged itself,
And the rainy-day -- she died.



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