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  • The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 1/Beatrice

     How was I worthy so divine a loss,

        Deepening my midnights, kindling all my morns?

      Why waste such precious wood to make my cross,

        Such far-sought roses for my crown of thorns?


      And when she came, how earned I such a gift?

        Why spend on me, a poor earth...

  • Century Magazine/Volume 49/Issue 1/The Mother Who Died Too

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