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Edward S. Silvera, "On the Death of a Young Friend" (1926)

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You came like the dawn
With no voice
To proclaim your calm birth
Save the song of the lark;
And when shadows foretold
That the quick day was done,
Your little white shroud
Had already been spun,
So you stole away in the dark.

Published in Opportunity, December 1926

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