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Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

‘Life knows no dead so beautiful’

Joaquin Miller (1841–1913)

LIFE knows no dead so beautiful

As is the white cold coffin’d past;

This I may love nor be betray’d:

The dead are faithful to the last.

I am not spouseless—I have wed

A memory—a life that ’s dead.