Death & Dying
For the Window in St. Margaret's
From Before the Curfew
Death & Dying
Afar he sleeps whose name is graven here,
Where loving hearts his early doom deplore;
Youth, promise, virtue, all that made him dear
Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore.
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MLA
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. “For the Window in St. Margaret's.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/holmes/294/.
Chicago
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. “For the Window in St. Margaret's.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/holmes/294/.
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