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Mourning Song on the Occasion Of Discovering an Old Friend Missing from the Greenway Across from Hendricks Hall
- Christianity & Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 59, Number 4, Summer 2010
- p. 682
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682 CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE Mourning Song on the Occasion Of Discovering an Old Friend Missing from the Greenway Across from Hendricks Hall The persimmon tree I loved is gone! I don't know who or how or when (a hurricane? a saw? a giant plucking posies for a friend?). It disappeared. The flame-orange fruit would now be sweet-first frost last week-no pucker even near the stem. It's hard to understand why buildings standand gingko trees still grace this parkand ponderosa pines embrace the skywhile my beloved (Who, Lord? When? 0, why?).... And yet I'm glad the others live. It's far too sad to be alone and die. ANN ApPLEGARTH ...
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