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Waring Cuney, "Threnody" (1928)

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THRENODY

Only quiet death
Brings relief
From the wearisome
Interchange
Of hope and grief.
O body,
(Credulous heart
And dream torn head)
What will wisdom be
Or folly—
When you lie dead?
Life-beaten body
Bruised and sore—
Neither hunger nor satiety
Are known beyond death's door.


Published in Four Lincoln University Poets, 1928

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