Death is a Dialogue between The Spirit and the Dust. Dissolve says DeathThe Spirit Sir I have another Trust Death doubts itArgues from the Ground The Spirit turns away Just laying off for evidence An Overcoat of Clay.
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Oh fraud that cannot cheat the Bee --Almost thy plausibility
Induces my belief.
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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie True Poems flee.
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Your Riches -- taught me -- Poverty.
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Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.
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The healed Heart shows its shallow scar
With confidential moan --
Not mended by Mortality
Are Fabrics truly torn --
To go its convalescent way
So shameless is to see
More genuine were Perfidy
Than such Fidelity.
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A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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