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EPIGRAM
TO A LADY RECOVERED FROM A DANGEROUS
SICKNESS
Life plucks thee back as by the golden hair—
Life, who
had feigned to let thee go but now.
Wealthy is Death already and can
spare
Ev’n such a prey as thou.
WILLIAM WATSON
MLA citation:
Watson, William. “Epigram.” The Yellow Book, vol. 2, July 1894, p. 289. Yellow Book Digital Edition, edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2010-2014. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019. https://1890s.ca/YBV2_watson_epigram/