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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Sarah Morgan BryanPiatt

678 The Term of Death

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!