• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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      4 hours ago

      Who is Will, and why did he die?
      This, of all, I wonder why.
      When he left I felt the surge
      Of pain flow though my heart and I
      Thought back to all the Wills I’ve known
      But none of them would cause such groan
      To splinter in my heart like this;
      I’d barely find a little moan.
      So why at last, when chance is here
      Should I cry, “Will should live!” with fear?
      I only met him once but now
      For all he is I shed a tear.
      And so I wait with baited breath
      At graveside—but with terror rings
      The note of balance, weighing kings
      And paupers on the scale; sings
      That this one’s life, return’d on wings,
      In recompense a great doom brings:
      The rest of us will meet our death.