Death & Dying
The Dead Are Soon Forgotten, and Not All
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Death & Dying
The dead are soon forgotten, and not all
Who walk aside and bear the sable pall
Sleep the less soundly at that evening's close.
I in my vigil think I heard a toll
Such as it boom'd when Teresita's soul
In heaven's own purity to heaven arose.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Dead Are Soon Forgotten, and Not All.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/927/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Dead Are Soon Forgotten, and Not All.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/927/.
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