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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH: 23, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poet's Biography
First Line: Break not my silence, trouble not my sleep
Last Line: None knows—nor what death tells me now I'm dead.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The
First Line: Break not my silence, trouble not my sleep
Last Line: None knows—nor what death tells me now I'm dead.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The
Break not my silence, trouble not my sleep;
A weighty secret's given me to keep:—
Life's confidant was I, but what he said
None knows—nor what Death tells me now I'm dead.
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