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Song from “The Poet-Worker.”

CLVI.

Memento Mori.

Think Thou, the Night shall come—And on thy drifting senses steal the clangOf Time’s great gates behind thee, ere thou goInto the shadows of the dark beyond !Then with no terror, shalt thou slip thy handIn the great angel Death’s—as in a friend’s—And walk with him, barefooted, to the Dawn.

Amy Fowles

CLVII.

Song from “The Poet-Worker.”

Bury the brave man dead Where he fought and fell;—Where the bubbling stream runs red In the narrow dell;While tears of, heartfelt sorrow riseTo dim the rugged soldiers’ eyes.
But the green grass will grow, After one sad year;By the grave the stream will flow, Pure and bright and clear.And joy through all our grief will well,To think how true the man who fell.
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