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Requiescat (Author: Oscar Wilde)

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1. 1] TREAD lightly, she is near
   2] Under the snow,
   3] Speak gently, she can hear
   4] The daisies grow.
2. 5] All her bright golden hair
   6] Tarnished with rust,
   7] She that was young and fair
   8] Fallen to dust.
3. 9] Lily-like, white as snow,
   10] She hardly knew
   11] She was a woman, so
   12] Sweetly she grew.

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4. 13] Coffin-board, heavy stone,
   14] Lie on her breast,
   15] I vex my heart alone
   16] She is at rest.
5. 17] Peace, Peace, she cannot hear
   18] Lyre or sonnet,
   19] All my life's buried here,
   20] Heap earth upon it.

AVIGNON.