| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (18781962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922. |
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| The Farewell |
| | | Winifred Virginia Jackson |
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| WHAT is more beautiful | |
| Than thought, soul-fed, | |
| That I may be the crimson of a rose | |
| When dead? | |
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| My soul, so light a joy | 5 |
| And grief will be, | |
| That it will gently press the brown earth down | |
| On me. | |
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