| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (18331908). An American Anthology, 17871900. 1900. |
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| 1300. Life |
| | | By Alice Brown |
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| WHAT, comrade of a night, | |
| No sooner meet than fight? | |
| Before the word, the blow? | |
| Well, be it so. | |
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| Yet think not Thou I yield, | 5 |
| Lost on a lonely field. | |
| Lo! to my fainting breath, | |
| My champion, Death! | |
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