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Come Away, Death
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| Come Away, Death written by William Henry Davies |
| From "Later Days", 1925 |
Come away, Death, make no mistake,
There's no one in that house to die;
She's young and strong, though suffering pain,
And waits to hear her first-born's cry.
'Nay.' answered Death, 'there's no mistake,
I've been to this same house before;
Though no one saw a corpse come out,
Or any mourner at the door.
'I've been to this same house before,
I know it well from any other:
And now I come again, to see
A dead-born child destroy its mother.'
| This work is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. |
