Teasdale, Sara. Rivers to the Sea
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AFTER DEATH



Now while my lips are living
     Their words must stay unsaid,
And will my soul remember
     To speak when I am dead?

Yet if my soul remembered
     You would not heed it, dear,
For now you must not listen,
     And then you could not hear.




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