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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

V. Death and Bereavement

The Term of Death

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919)

BETWEEN the falling leaf and rose-bud’s breath;

The bird’s forsaken nest and her new song

(And this is all the time there is for Death);

The worm and butterfly—it is not long!