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THE HOUR-GLASS OF ASHES by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT

First Line: WHEN TORISMUND, FOR LOVE OF ROSALIND
Last Line: IN DEATH, WHO FOUND NONE IN THE LIVING'S LAND.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

When Torismund, for love of Rosalind,
Consumed to ashes in the flames he fanned,
She did not strew his ashes on the wind
But gathered it all up with faithful hand.

And now he serves the child's inventive mind
Within her hour-glass placed instead of sand:
Glad that through her, he still no peace doth find
In death, who found none in the living's land.




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