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This is the scene of a man's despair and a soul's release	A
From the difficult traits of the flesh so it seeking peace	A
A shot rang out in the night death's doors were wide	B
And you stood alone a stranger and saw inside	B
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Coward flesh brave soul which was it One feared the world	C
The pity of men or their scorn yet carelessly hurled	C
All on the balance of Chance for a state unknown	D
Fled the laughter of men for the anger of God alone	D
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Perhaps when the hot blood streamed on the daisied sod	E
Poor soul you were likened to Cain and you fled from God	E
Men say you fought hard for your life when the deed was done	F
But your body would rise no more 'neath this world's sun	F
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I'd choose should I do the act such a night as this	G
When the sea throws up white arms for the wild wind's kiss	G
When the waves shake the shuddering shore with their foamy jaws	H
Tear the strand till slipping pebbles shriek through their claws	H
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The sky is loud with the storm not a bird dare span	I
From here to the mist beasts are silent yet for a man	I
For a soul springing naked to meet its judge a night	J
That were as a brother to this poor spirit's long flight	J
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But he had chosen they tell me a dusk so fair	K
One almost thought there were not such another there	K
The air was full of the perfume of pines and the sweet	L
Sleepy chirp of birds long the lush soft grass at his feet	L
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They say there was dancing too in a house close by	M
That they heard the shot just thinking wild birds must die	M
They supped and laughed went singing the long night through	N
And they danced unknowing the dance of death with you	N
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What did you hear when you opened the doors of death	O
Was it the sob of a thrush or a slow sweet breath	O
Of the perfumed air that blew through the doors with you	N
That you fought so hard to regain the world you knew	N
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Or was it a woman's cry that shrieking into the gloom	P
Like a hand that closed on your soul clutching it from its doom	P
Was it a mother's call or the touch of a baby's kiss	G
That followed your desperate soul down the black abyss	G
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What did you see as you stood on the other side	B
A strange shy soul amongst souls did you seek to hide	B
From the ghosts that were who judged you upon your way	Q
Reckoned your sins against theirs for the judgment day	Q
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You feared the world the pity of men or their scorn	R
The movements of fate and the sorrows for which you were born	R
Men's laughter men's speech their judging what was it to this	G
Where the eyes of the dead proclaim you have done amiss	G
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Not peace did you gain perhaps nor the rest you had planned	S
'Neath the horrible countless eyes that you could not withstand	S
Or was it God looked from his throne in a moment's disdain	T
And you shrieked for a trial once more in the height of your pain	T
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Perhaps but who knows when you struggled so hard for life's breath	O
You saw nothing passing the grave except silence and death	O
You lay shut in by the four clay walls of your cell	U
There the live soul locked up in the stiff dead body's shell	U
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Dead dead and coffin'd buried beneath the clay	Q
And still the living soul caged in to wait decay	Q
For ever alone in night of unlifting gloom	P
There to think and think and think in the silent tomb	P
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Or was it in death's cold land there was no perfume	P
Of the scented flowers or lilt of a bird's gay tune	V
No sea there or no cool of a wind's fresh breath	O
No woods no plains no dreams and alas no death	O
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Was there no life there that man's brain could understand	S
No past no future hopes to come in that strange land	S
No human love no sleep no day no night	J
But ever eternal living in eternal light	J
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Perhaps the soul thus springing to fill its grave	W
Found all the peace and happiness that it could crave	W
All it had lost alone was that poor body's part	X
Which naught but grey corruption saw for its chart	X
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Ah well for us there ended all one man's life with this	G
A shot a cry a struggle and a fainting woman's kiss	G
Life's blood let 'mid the grasses and all a world was lost	Y
And no one may ever know how he paid the cost	Z
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He is lost in the crowd of the dead in the night time of death	O
A name on a stone left to tell that he ever drew breath	O
So desperate body die there with your soul's long release	A
And unhappy spirit God grant you Eternity's peace	A

Dora Sigerson Shorter

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