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I saw a son weep o’er a mother’s grave: “Ay, weep, poor boy—weep thy most bitter tears That thou shalt smile so soon. We bury Love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass; That is the thing to weep for, not the dead.”
I saw a son weep o’er a mother’s grave: “Ay, weep, poor boy—weep thy most bitter tears That thou shalt smile so soon. We bury Love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass; That is the thing to weep for, not the dead.”
Approximate author period: c. 1848 AD · industrial
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- Alexander Smith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1848 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 27 · printed citation: Alexander Smith (A Boy’s Poem) · compiler notes excluded
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