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1851–1926

DOROTHY.

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

Dear little Dorothy, she is no more! I have wandered world-wide, from shore to shore, I have seen as great beauties as ever were wed; But none can console me for Dorothy dead.

Dear little Dorothy! How strange it seems That her face is less real than the faces of dreams; That the love which kept true, and the lips which so spoke, Are more lost than my heart, which died not when it broke!

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