The Dead Lover
James Whitcomb Riley
1849 to 1916
Track 1
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Some one sews; and the room is made
The friends will talk, and the sermon go,
Soft through the window-shade.
To think of—nothing whatever to do
Yesterday I thought: "I know
And the hearse-horse bow and bow!
Very clean; and the light is shed
Just how the bells will sound, and how
Time is so long when a man is dead!
But to hear the throb of the pulse of a wing
This is to-day; and I have nothing
That wants to fly back to you.
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