[Mary Meriam]

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Originally Posted by Catherine Chandler

This exquisite poem will be hard to "beat". It has such a fine, firm sense of place and of self within the place, with details, rhymes and rhythm that welcome in the reader. Everything in the poem leads inevitably to those two final haunting lines that are to die, and to live, for. Of course, I think we all know who wrote this poem . Bravo, bravissimo!