Social Commentaries
Laying the Dust
From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
Social Commentaries
After such years of dissension and strife,
Some wonder that Peter should weep for his wife:
But his tears on her grave was nothing surprising,--
He's laying her dust, for fear of its rising.
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Hood, Thomas. “Laying the Dust.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/145/.
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Hood, Thomas. “Laying the Dust.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/145/.
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