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Blanche Taylor Dickinson, "Fortitude" (1927)

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Fortitude
By BLANCHE TAYLOR DICKINSON

She screamed but no one heard her. . .
Her body was a silencer.
She cried and never moved a tear… 
Her heart was broken, tears dripped there.

Silent, she seemed content to lay
Her soul awhile in fresh red clay.
Proud to stand, all grief defying . . .
We knew that she was all but dying.


Published in Opportunity, February 1927

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