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Book by Adelaide Crapsey · 10 quotes · Grief, Tears, Death

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“Why do You thus devise Evil against her?' 'For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.”

Desire Beauty Spite

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“Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold flood.”

Imagination Sun Sea Mermaid

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“Three grey women walk with me Fate and Grief and Memory. My fate brought grief; my grief must be With me through Eternity, Such thy power, memory. Three grey women walk with me.”

Pain Grief Destiny Fate Memory

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“If illness' end be health regained then I Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die.”

Humor Health Doctors Illness

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“The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?”

Grief Tears Wind

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“Oh Lady, let the sad tears fall To speak thy pain, Gently as through the silver dusk The silver rain. Oh, let thy bosom breathe its grief In such soft sigh As hath the wind in gardens where Pale roses die.”

Grief Tears

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“Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And sweet.”

Joy Tears Sorrow Laughter

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“But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!”

Death Immortality Growing Old

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“I make my shroud, but no one knows -- So shimmering fine it is and fair, With stitches set in even rows, I make my shroud, but no one knows. In door-way where the lilac blows, Humming a little wandering air, I make my shroud and no one knows, So shimmering fine it is and fair.”

Death Hidden Pain

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“No guile? Nay, but so strangely He moves among us. . Not this Man but Barabbas! Release to us Barabbas!”

Religious Barabbas

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