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A Sun Dyall in a Grave

"A SUN DYALL IN A GRAVE"
                          Donne
By this, some pour of darkness might be stayed
And bleed beside the sunless blade,
Severed, a shadow darker even than
Its element subterranean,
To write
For those dead eyes the time of night.

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