Time & Brevity
Lessons Twain
From Afterglow (1900)
Time & Brevity
Just two things you knew,
Little one who flew
Like a dove to heaven
One fair summer even:
Love and pain. These two
Held Life’s lore for you!
Child, do we know more?
Earth for you is o’er;
All that it hath brought you,
All that it hath taught you;
Lessons twain for thee--
How much more know we?
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MLA
Dorr, Julia C. R. “Lessons Twain.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dorr/233/.
Chicago
Dorr, Julia C. R. “Lessons Twain.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dorr/233/.
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