Weird Tales/Volume 14/Issue 3/The Living

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THE LIVING
By LOUISE GARWOOD

She can not smell those roses. She can not even see.
Take them off her coffin! Give them to me!
Henceforth her lips and eyes are food to make the rose more fair,
And when she blooms I'll take her and wear her in my hair.

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