Death & Dying
Into the World and Out
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1918)
Death & Dying
Into the world he looked with sweet surprise;
The children laughed so when they saw his eyes.
Into the world a rosy hand in doubt
He reached — a pale hand took one rosebud out.
"And that was all — quite all!" No, surely! But
The children cried so when his eyes were shut.
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MLA
Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan. “Into the World and Out.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/piatt_sm/11/.
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Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan. “Into the World and Out.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/piatt_sm/11/.
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